Holy Spirit, you're always speaking by your wonderful
living voice.
You have been all these days, and you
are tonight, and through this evening, and through
tomorrow.
So we're able to hear your voice, and
through you, hear and see, and come in
living union with Jesus.
So we thank you.
Amen.
I'd like
just to say, I suppose with my own
missionary background, and therefore some worldwide outreach, how
moved I was by hearing from Tom and
Virginia Price yesterday afternoon and today, and of
the extensions of this foundation farthest out.
I find I can usually sense when God
is on the move, and I sense that.
However, something is moving in a new way
through this foundation farthest out, which is taking
CFO Fellows and Witnesses around the world.
As I know the world, I believe it's
right for something like this.
And I have a conviction that this beginnings
of the foundation farthest out is going to
be as big as the beginnings of the
whole movement.
You'll find that, so I hope we can
begin to catch the thrill to build, to
reproduce the same kind of living fellowships in
India, and Africa, and Indonesia, and Jamaica, and
all around the world that we have here.
So, I hope the day will come, maybe
it is, I don't know, when the whole
fellowship of CFO, and find it part of
the CFO, and I suppose I shouldn't say
this, but as Tom
knows, and I know, the world is right
for this kind of thing.
I also have a strong conviction that God
seals on those two.
God seals men and women.
I believe those two are sealed in this
kind of ministry.
And God set him apart to be in
plants.
So I thank God that he was brought
to us these days.
Now we've been talking these days of God's
plan from eternity to manifest his lover father
self, and whatever purposes he has for eternity
through his sons.
His sons are a vast company of people
by whom he manifests himself so that the
God manifests us.
The Father, Son, and Spirit will be seen
in his love action and love purposes.
And we've been seeing how he has brought
us as persons through phases
of recognition of our relationship to him.
The first phase was the redemption phase, the
justification phase, where as lost sinners we found
our Lord Jesus was producing us in the
consciousness of a phase of
recognition, coming to a living, saved, redeemed, love
relationship with Jesus, Father, Spirit.
Then we moved on to what is the
meaning of being a real person to the
consciousness of a unified relationship.
The meaning of the living person, Father, Son,
Spirit, and ourselves is that we have become
a conscious unity.
So we functioning, we do function as humans,
it isn't really we functioning.
We functioning is Christ functioning by us, we
are the Christ in human form.
And this is what his purpose is in
redemption.
And again, it's always by the inner consciousness
because all we ever are is our inner
consciousness.
We are what we know we are.
So we've spent some time seeing how God
has brought us into this in Christ and
move into the consciousness.
We now move out for a few minutes
tonight to the final of the three, where
it says that we are to have a
relationship with him which is like a little
child, young man, and father.
And we saw that the first two relationships
are for our development, little children and young
men.
The third is for the fatherhood, in
all normal activities out from us.
So the first two, in two words, the
statement made in the John's statement, a word
about it here, it says, it doesn't seem
at first because you have known him it
is from the beginning.
Twice over it says, I write unto you
fathers because you have known him it is
from the beginning.
Now remember, knowledge is being mixed with something.
Knowledge is knowing and being it.
It's part of me.
It isn't something I just know here.
It's something that has become part of me.
So I write unto you fathers because you
have become part of me.
He's not even given a name there.
He's just the eternal one.
Not him at the beginning, him from the
beginning.
You see here that the third relationship is
union with him in his outgoing purposes, in
his perfected purposes, him from the beginning unto
the ending of it.
And we are in union with him, participators
of him on that relationship.
That's a very strong message, a strong presentation.
Because you see, this person, this living person,
we see all along, only has one nature,
he is for others, he is love, he
is for others.
He is filled with joy and fulfilment, he
is the means by which his universe is
perfected, by people perfected, he is out for
himself, giving himself for others.
This is the only nature he has.
This is where his joy, his peace, his
fulfilment is.
So this is what this word is saying
to us.
The recognition that if I'm a justified person
through Christ, if I'm a unified person in
Christ, so it's not I living, it's he
living.
Now I'm also a cooperating person and there's
no other meaning to my life.
There's no partial meaning, the only meaning to
life.
If you and I are justified, unified, there's
no other purpose for time and eternity, no
other meaning to our life except for others.
That's a strong statement.
It means that whatever happens to us, see
we so easily slip back into the old
concept, the old outlook, why is this happening
to me?
Why am I in this situation?
Why am I in this health condition?
I'm relating to myself.
Now as this new consciousness settles into me,
this new recognition settles into me, every single
thing happens to me.
No situation ever happens to me again for
myself.
It's always part of the purpose for others.
That's why I keep saying it's a strong
thing, a strong thing to recognise it.
Now in each case we learn, what we
recognise, faith, faith is recognising facts.
When we were saved we recognised a fact,
Jesus took my place and then the consciousness
came into us.
When we recognised this unified relationship, we recognised
it by faith.
So you see in each case it's a
recognition of a fact.
So I'm just, in this final statement, throwing
it out to you, for those of you
who used to hear.
Can I begin to recognise there's never any
other meaning to my life?
Everything that happens to me is always because
God has some outgoing purpose by means of
saving self.
If I begin to recognise it, it will
begin to settle into me.
As I say, you see, on the health
condition, often you know seeking health is selfish.
It's why aren't I better?
No, no, no.
Start by saying, this
is a high privilege, and begin to learn
that it has to happen.
It used to be a question, we used
to know him, he's my living bread, he's
my living water.
That's a permanent fact now, you don't have
to find out.
But our foreground is we are co-bred
with him for others.
We are co-outpoured wine.
It's a different relationship.
It's a relationship of fellowship.
Oh God, I'm hanging on to you.
No, no, no, that's fixed, he's hung on
to me, he got me, praise God.
That's finished.
Are he in human form forever?
So don't look at that, take up a
voice.
Now, as he, we are as he, I'm
just presenting to you, this is the father,
it's actually the level which we, because all
these begin in the beginning, even when we're
born again we begin to do that.
You know, the moment we're his, our delight
is we can be blessing to others, isn't
it?
We know it already.
Our true joy is when we can be
something for others, isn't it?
When our lives can take us, that's our
joy.
It's eternal joy, it's the only joy there
is.
When we, in some way, living water, as
it were, by which other people can drink
upon Jesus.
That doesn't mean, it doesn't mean we don't
get back, it doesn't mean we try.
It's this person, he takes us his way.
It's a paradoxical life.
You're just yourself, you're not you, you're Jesus.
Now, we talked about justice.
Live it freely.
He'll cause you to be for others.
He'll cause you to relate your life so
that you can be something that other people
can have.
So I'll just throw that out as a
third recognition.
See, faith is recognizing fact.
So we begin to settle into this high
recognition.
This is what's called the ascended recognition.
See, there are three phases, crucifixion, resurrection, ascension.
Crucifixion, cut the old, cut the old.
Resurrection, introduce me to a new, new, new,
new relationship with the Lord himself, Christ himself.
He's seated.
Seated means you've finished it.
The next step, going out into it, and
we're the means on which he goes out.
So we're seated with him to go out,
to go out with him to bring in
the harvest.
On the victory, victory level, we're far above
Satan and all the rest of it.
That's the ascended life.
We're living in the ascension, which is the
outgoing life, by which, by us, he can
reap in his harvest.
I say again, don't try and interpret that.
But if you recognize and accept by faith,
this is the meaning, accept, now Lord, it's
up to you to put this through me
now.
Now Lord, join me like this.
It's you who in your own way, move
through me, manifest yourself through me to others
in whatever way that may be.
And I accept that by faith.
I remember, if it's a young man, precious
scripture might be for a young person here.
I remember how a young man, I got
those two scriptures in John.
One is, oh, he shall be in you
a well of water, Jesus Christ, a well
of springing up.
There it says, he that believeth on me,
John 7, 38, out of him, rivers that
live in water, in you, springing up to
the everlasting life, out from me as rivers
in my early ministry.
Maybe 20, 21 years of age.
Hmm, I thought, rivers.
Maybe one day I'm a muddy trickle, so
I'll walk ahead like this.
Maybe one day he says, OK, God, he
said, out of my inmost part will flow
rivers to the world.
OK, God, I'll take it.
I'll sign this up.
Am I to my own?
Well, I don't know.
So see, this is the, that's all I
wanted to say about this, what is the
meaning of the fatherhood level.
But the Holiest Being in you is the
one who fills it in your life.
Now, I just want to ask for a
moment or two, by what ways does God
manifest itself by us?
By what ways are we God manifesters?
We're in the foreground, persons in action.
This is persons in action.
But the persons in action is really our
Christ.
By what way are we people in action?
So really it is the living God expressing
himself to us by two
ways, inner, inner and outer.
Because we're inner people and we're outer people.
Or, if you like, we're spirit and we're
body, or soul and body together.
Spirit, inner, soul and body, outer.
Two ways by which he manifests himself by
us.
Now, remember, we are inner people.
Every outer thing comes from an inner relationship.
The supreme importance is the inner one.
Now the simple term used in the Bible,
of course, is by faith.
By faith we know that.
But it's given a place of supreme importance
in the Bible.
There are only two words in the Bible
which are chapters.
It works by the inner motivation, the self
giving.
In the new life, we have the other
love motivating us, and that is by our
faith.
Jesus put a startling emphasis on faith.
For instance, when the woman came to him
with the issue of blood, she touched him
and he knew virtue came out of him.
He didn't point to his virtue.
He said, daughter, thy faith.
He moved in by faith and the faith
liberated the virtue to come through.
He was centering around the human element of
the faith which made it possible for the
virtue to come through.
So faith.
Now, there's attitudes.
All faith is how you begin to see
things and then you attach yourself to it.
All faith is, you see something, you believe
something, you want something, you take it, you
go to it.
So it starts by what you're seeing, what
you're believing in, what's attracting your attention.
I've had a tremendous revolution on this one.
I don't know if you have.
You see, we humans are geared to one
attitude.
That's the negative.
We're in a negative world and we're always
seeing things negatively.
Life's full of it.
Difficult people, difficult things, difficult situations.
So we live in the negative.
Now, when you see a negative, you're beaten
by it.
What can you do with it?
That's the trouble.
What can you do with that difficult situation
in people's lives or these family situations?
What can you do with it?
But I've got a reverse in how I'm
to see things.
A total reverse.
And that total reverse is that I'm to
see things wholly different.
See, I understood God personally, to me.
It's lovely.
I understood God universal.
I had a vague idea.
It don't know me.
God's in everything, everywhere.
Of course he is.
We've been talking about it all the time.
God's in everything.
Oh.
So everything, whatever situation it is, that situation,
God's in it.
I went further.
I found that God means a thing to
be what it is.
God means evil to be evil.
It is in it.
That's difficult, isn't it?
God means evil to be evil.
He means evil things to be evil, evil
people to do evil things, and evil consequences
to follow.
He means it.
I've cut the word permissive will a long
time out of my life.
He means it.
What do I mean?
Well, I saw it like this.
The only way God can have living persons,
living sons, they must be free people, of
course.
Freedom is I have to choose all the
time.
All life I'm free to choose.
And what I choose takes me over.
You've come here this week.
You came, it took you over.
That's what faith is.
You're free to choose.
You choose it, it takes you over.
So that's what freedom is.
So if we're to be people, we have
to be free.
And so we're free to make our choices.
And of course our basic choice, we've talked
about it in other talks, is am I
with Christ as a self-giving person?
Is my choice with Satan to be a
self-seeking, self-satisfying, or is my choice
with Christ by his Spirit, by himself?
He's responsible for the freedom.
Evil things all come out of our misuse
of freedom.
Now, we're all involved in this world, so
we get his corruptions, we get his diseases.
We aren't directly, but we're mingled in the
whole human family in this chaotic condition, this
corrupting...
Now, God's not responsible for that.
God's responsible for the freedom which we use
and produce this.
But because he's God and perfect love, because
he's everywhere, he's also in the situation...
everything is he.
So he's in the evil situation.
But because he's love, he's in the evil
situation to bring good out of it.
Oh, that's it.
He's in every evil situation, he's not responsible
for it, it came into being through the
products of this...
He's writing those things therefore.
Therefore, the very evil thing, he's there, it's
he in a sense.
But because he's love, because he's perfect purpose,
he's there to turn that thing into a
redemptive end.
Don't you see what that means?
Do you see, I can have a reverse
way of seeing things, and I find this
to be the key to a liberated life.
I can either say to people, what shall
I do with this, seeing humanly?
Or I can say with God's sight, with
me, it looks like that, but I'm not
seeing it like that.
I'm seeing the perfect God with the perfect
purpose, he meant it, a perfect action, perfect
love, and a perfect outcome to this thing
in that situation.
Thank you Lord.
You meant that thing to be, you aren't
responsible for it.
You meant freedom to have it's effects, and
freedom to have it's effects, you're not responsible.
Now that transforms your inner seeing, you are
governed by your inner seeing, do you understand
that?
We're inner consciousness, we live and are controlled
by the way we see things, not by
things as they are outside, how you see
them.
It's tremendous, as you see a thing, oh,
oh, oh, oh.
Now you always talk like that, we're human,
all our life, oh dear, what about that?
We're meant to be human, so I'm startled,
bewildered, hurt, but when I know the secret,
wait a minute, I'm doing it all the
time.
It doesn't look like it, it looks like
the devil, it is the devil, but God,
you gave that freedom, out of freedom there's
been this operation, if you like, of the
devil here, but you're everywhere, you're there, and
you're in the middle of that thing, and
I see you meant to be, and I
see you're going to turn this into a
new revelation of your grace and love and
power and presence.
Oh, I say, all right, OK, God, OK,
praise the Lord.
And from depression, and a sense of binding
of the feet, so I'm liberated.
God's in that thing, and you'll see God's
going to come out of it.
So do you see this terrific thing?
If this is true, there are no problems
left in life unless you see there's a
problem.
There are no difficulties left in life unless
you see the difficulties.
There are no diseases left in life unless
you see the diseases.
Don't look at diseases, see the living Christ
in you, let God handle diseases.
Don't try to get the diseases healed, get
busy seeing Jesus.
The Bible says God doesn't.
He's the pure eyes of the whole evil,
read it, Habakkuk says that.
There are the pure eyes of the whole
evil.
And then it says to us, the pure
is hot, but then you see God, and
that's all you see.
The pure only sees God.
Now, I'm not to see evil, but of
course it looks like it.
And it is so on the outside, but
it's how I see it matters to me.
In its actual fact, it's an evil thing
like that.
But what matters to me is how I
see it.
And my contribution to it would be, of
course, how I see it now, you see.
So, is it evil?
No, I'm not seeing it evil.
No, I'm not seeing it.
It is evil, it can be called evil,
it looks evil, but I see everything as
what God meant out of freedom.
He didn't produce that, but he meant it
to be the effect, but because he's perfect
love, perfect purpose, perfect will, out of that
thing is going to come out of the
evil.
Now, I shall show, if I ask hands
raised in this room, for a number of
people who had tragedies in their lives and
they've been blessed, precisely, precisely,
you see, you thought, oh, it turns out
to be a new relationship for you to
God, to the people and so on.
But I say again, do you see the
tremendousness of that?
Do you see that everything in the Bible
is total, it's never partial.
Do you see the totality of that?
There's one problem left, there's one tragedy left.
I'm hurt as a human, let's say it
as a human body, if I can see
through, oh no, that it is like that,
he's going to come through the new presence
of his power of blessing of salvation and
so on.
That's where we become on top people.
If I just, biblically, proofs, what did
Jesus see at Calvary?
We're told at the Last Supper, Satan entered
into Judas, and Jesus knew Satan had entered
into Judas, and he said quietly, Judas, he
loved Judas, tried to win him.
All right, go out, Judas, quietly, and do
what you're going to do.
He knew what he was going to do,
betray him.
And Satan was on the march now, and
got into the Caiaphas and Pilate and the
Pharisees and the soldiers.
Satan, wide open.
Do you get what Jesus said, twice over?
Do you get it?
The last verse, but one, in John 14,
is the wonderful supper table conversation, on supper
table.
The last verse, but one, said this, to
his beloved disciples, I won't be much with
you, I won't speak much with you.
For the prince of this world, Calvary, hath
nothing in me.
In me is in the consciousness.
Out everything.
Tear them to pieces.
Have scourge and put it out.
Only in a person.
See, this is the great secret when you
learn it.
There are no prisons except your own self.
A prison is not a prison unless you
take it to the prison.
There's nothing by the person.
A communist isn't a bound communist when you've
got Jesus.
He's a Jewish, Jesus is in him, and
Jesus is giving you a chance to sort
of like what he is.
There are no bindings and no prisons on
earth.
Except the way you take it, that's your
only prison.
When you take a thing as evil, and
you're caught up by it, then it's evil
and you fight it.
When you say, God put me there, it's
love, it's perfect.
That's the strange reason why Paul said to
a slave, He said to a slave, remain
slave.
Well, it isn't very good social gospel today.
In 1 Corinthians 7 he said, if you're
a slave, remain a slave.
Why?
Because if you're a slave, you're outwardly bound
to your master.
But if you're Christ's slave, you're Christ's free
man.
You're free to love, that's freedom.
To have Christ in you, and to be
able to express the love of Christ, that's
freedom.
And you, a slave, and a free person,
and your boss, caught up with his flesh
stuff, he's a slave.
A slave in flesh.
Do you know what I mean?
And so do you see with Jesus, that's
the first thing.
Look at that, right at, confronting with Satan.
There's nothing in me, can't see him.
Don't see him, I can't see him.
He has nothing in me, outwardly.
How do I know he can't see me?
Because three chapters afterwards, Jesus went through Gethsemane,
kind of set everything up there.
You know that dramatic moment, and that's a
wonderful word, you know it as well as
I do.
Came out of Gethsemane, there were the soldiers,
the torches and the shouts and the noises,
come to arrest him.
And there was our beloved Peter, having one
good shot, one last, a little nervous, so
he cut the ear off, he meant to
cut the head off.
Do you catch the beauty of it?
Think, for instance, of the poise.
If you're arrested, you're pretty nervous.
When you see evil, you're pretty nervous.
If Jesus had been seeing these soldiers, he'd
be pretty nervous, pretty tense, wouldn't he?
Didn't see him.
He's so free, he could pick up the
ear and put it back, that's a miracle.
Peter said, drop that.
Don't use those swords any more.
Listen Peter, that cup, that's going pretty far.
Into that cup, out of that cup.
So he called the wicked devil, Father's cup,
which the Father gave him.
That's going pretty far.
So do you see how far we can
go in saying, that's the Lord, that's the
Lord.
It looks like a devil, it's the Lord,
you watch.
We can see the Lord coming through that
very thing, which looks to me like a
mess and a devil and everything else.
We begin to get something, we begin to
see our lost dear ones like that.
It's all right, God means them to go
that way to teach them some sense.
God means us to go down to prepare
us to go up.
Leave them alone.
Okay, let them go that way.
The Father's got them, that's my faith.
You watch, the Father's got them, as soon
as this thing goes they come back again.
Then you have a freedom of love and
faith towards the ones who outwardly all tear
you up.
Of course, the other famous illustration was Joseph.
I repeat, I should know it, because it's
a word used, where God had set a
purpose to make Joseph his deliverer to Judah
in Egypt.
You know the story, of course.
And he put Joseph through all that selling
of a slave by his own brothers.
And then under Potiphar's prison, Potiphar's wife lying
him back in the prison again.
After 14 years, he said, the ironing, not
only the ironing on his bands, all the
time that precious Joseph knew God, as peace.
I won't go into it now, you can
see it.
Then he came up to be Prime Minister.
And you know, the children of Israel returned.
And the moment of reconciliation came.
But that famous word, it's in the last
chapter of Genesis.
He said to his brothers, who were still
a bit frightened because of what they'd done.
You meant it for evil, God meant it
for good.
Write that under every tough spot you've got.
God means that for good.
Every tough spot, like God means it, doesn't
permit it.
God wasn't responsible, the tough spot came out
of their evil doings, but God meant to
use those evil doings for good.
And so, the devil does evil doings, or
a fallen man, OK, OK.
God doesn't see it, he says, that's all
right, that's the very thing I mean out
of that redemption, a new good.
Isn't that beautiful?
If I wanted one final proof, it's the
actual boldness of the statement of Peter of
the first speech after Pentecost, after the crucifixion.
You read there, he spoke to the crowds
around there, he said, your people, who determined
counsel, determined it, determined counsel and the full
knowledge of God, by which it has a
crucified state, God determined you, God determined you
to do it.
God determined which it has to crucify.
So, this is the first way in which
the light manifests through us.
Because when in all sorts of situations you
have poise, and you have peace and you
have praise, light's shining.
A light which the world hasn't got, because
of course the world's always getting torn up
by things, you can't see things as we
do.
Now I want to say one more thing,
I've had a bit tonight, but I may
finish it tomorrow morning.
One other thing, I'll at least begin it.
That's, we in faith attitude, that's victory.
Faith attitude, I've died, you might say, to
the attitude of seeing it negatively, seeing it
as you see it.
I've lived to see it as God sees
it, with God and this release and praise
and so on.
Faith action, what's faith action?
Faith attitude, faith action.
You see, the whole point of being sons
is, we function as sons.
We are equipped with all God.
God dwells in us.
You know that.
We are equipped with all of God.
Do you get that?
We are actually forms of God.
God's resources, God's presence, God's power, is we.
Is we.
We are equipped people.
We haven't got to get in.
He's got us.
You get all that, that please God, do
that.
I never waste time asking God to do
things, I just say thank you, you've already
done it.
I've got you.
I never ask God to come and bless
and meet you.
I say you're here, you're the best, you're
gone with it.
I don't waste my time asking what I've
got.
If a person offers me a plate of
cookies and I keep asking for them, I
insult them, don't I?
I just take it.
So I don't give up on that negative
praying, asking God for things.
Because you and I function as God.
We function, God's into us.
With His resources, we function as God.
We use the resources of God.
This is this marvellous new life, this new
ascended life we live in.
This father life.
We don't bother with the devil any more.
The Bible says that we're far above the
devil.
But when you make a big mess of
the devil, put him up in an aeroplane,
an automobile looks like a Peter, that's about
the only size the devil is or so.
So you don't bother with him, you don't
bother with him, bother with the person who
conquered him.
But this one whereby I have a few
moments here on it.
How do we touch your son?
Now, faith action.
What is all, I told you, what is
all action in life?
It's inwardly saying I'll do something.
The word, the faith, you don't call it
that.
Every single thing you ever did in life.
In speech, I'll eat that.
I'll sit there.
I'll go there.
Inside you, you set a decided word.
Thought doesn't do it, you may send me
several chairs I can choose out of, several
things you may eat, several places you may
go to.
Thought is like a father level, it's general.
Faith is a son level, which comes with
a decided word, that's what I'll eat, that's
what I'll go, that's what I'll take, that's
what I'll make, like those things you just
have made now.
They said, we'll make those.
I think John didn't say, I want to
be an artist, he said, I'll go and
make it.
That's faith.
So faith is my inability to relate myself,
you see, to something that's available, like food
or going to a place or doing something,
and then I say, I'll go there.
The faith is the moment of decision, I'll
go there, I'll take that, I'll do that.
Now, humanly, on a human level, I do
it with my hands, or with my feet,
or with my tools, and I produce the
thing, or in my car, I go to
a place.
So I fulfil my word of faith, humanly,
by my actions.
Now we're talking about people's spirits, we're talking
about spirits.
Now the spirits are no acts.
Now, can I just catch this?
The whole meaning now of being in places
of problems, those things we talked about, our
privilege is to be in a problem life,
with its distortions and distractions and challenges and
disturbances.
Life's always going to be as our privilege,
being in disturbed situations.
You always get them.
Wait a minute, God meant it, get there
first.
OK God, you meant it, you're there, so
you've got a peace at first, a release,
not fighting it and all that.
You accept it, you stop and say, OK
God, you meant it to be, you're going
to handle it.
Now that's the first faith attitude.
Now the faith attitude is, if you don't
like it, you're there to be the agent
by which God will change it.
You're to be the agent by which God
changes it.
What do I mean?
I mean, you accept the thing you don't
like, but you still don't like it.
You say, OK God, I've accepted that thing
wrong in that life, or that lack of
finance, or that problem in my business, or
problem in church, but I accept it.
You meant it to be, it hurts me,
I don't like it.
I've checked it for you, you've got a
purpose, you've got your first steps, your attitude.
But you don't like it.
God doesn't mean to like it.
Because God means you to be a person
disturbed by situations, that you may be the
one who goes further, and say, God, what
I see as a need, is when you
supply, it's already a supply.
See there's that marvellous scripture in Isaiah, where
Jehovah, God says, before they call, I will
answer.
Well, that's silly.
Try it on a telephone.
Before they call, I will answer.
Well, very well.
You've got the call, let's get an answer.
Lots of things God does are silly or
witty, whichever way you like.
Why before they call, I will answer?
Before they call, I will answer, means God
has the answer before you call.
Precisely.
God's always got the answer there.
He's sort of an eternal there.
Now, to get the answer through us, He
calls us to call.
That's the need.
He puts us in a place I don't
like, something I don't like.
I like to see that supplied, that health,
or that financial, or that changes a person's
life, or something.
Whatever you like.
I don't like it.
Now, God made me to do that, so
I can be the agent, who has turned
up to call.
In other words, turned up to face something
I don't like.
Now, the whole thing God is saying to
us, He'll desire, you can take.
Now, this is the royalty.
All He gives us is, all He has
is our disposal.
What you desire, you take.
So, when you desire, when you pray, believe
you will see them, believe you shall have
them, no limits on desire.
Now, don't say, you see, we've got so
used to suspicious, being suspicious of ourselves, my
desires are right.
Your God's got you.
All He says is what you desire.
All right then.
If you desire Him, what do you say?
Now, desire me, there's something that you'd like
to have, something which isn't there.
But you say, wait a minute, if it
is in God, God calls you to have
it yourself, because the thing is already there
with God.
It's there already.
Before they call, our answer is there.
Now then, this is how it acts.
A son uses the word of faith, on
that level, same as you do on earth.
On earth, you desire food, where you receive
it, I'll take it.
And you take it.
Now, in the spiritual realm, you desire something,
whatever it may be, material things, financial things,
needs, jobs, health, salvation, whatever it may be,
you desire it.
Now, this time it's in the Spirit.
You can't take it.
The Spirit is the person who gives it,
not you.
So, we then say, you're doing it.
Thank you, you've done that.
That's there.
That finance is there.
That healing is there.
That salvation is there.
That salvation is done.
That's the word of faith.
The word of faith sees the thing that
is done in God, because it's all about
the Spirit.
Now, in this case, it's the Spirit that
brings it about.
We can't go with our hands against it.
This time, the Spirit is the hands or
the car or the thing that brings the
thing to be.
The Spirit brings it into being.
Now, that's the use of the word of
faith.
I must have stopped.
I was stopping for a moment.
But, I think, in the main, two things
hinder us there.
One is, we're afraid of our desires.
We aren't old enough.
We can't quite believe it can be so.
We're afraid of our desires.
Well, more for you then.
God says, watch your desire.
The other is, your emotional reaction.
Oh, it couldn't be ridiculous.
I don't see the need, I see the
supply.
That problem, I see the solutions there.
That bound situation, I see the release.
Your whole reason, your emotion is one nonsense
talking like that.
So, the Spirit has to operate against reason.
And against emotion.
And against your emotions, against your reason, you
have to speak the word.
The word is spoken where the word of
faith is done.
Now, the key moment is the word of
faith.
A word is decisive.
You don't come here because, shall I come,
shall I not come.
You come because I'll come.
That puts a person to action.
A word puts a person to action.
And so, when we as humans use the
word of faith, the Holy Spirit is moving
through to do the thing, to bring it
to pass.
So, the word is a vital moment.
I've said it's done, it's finished, I don't
repeat it.
Supposing it hasn't come.
Well, then obviously you haven't believed.
You wouldn't ask that.
You say, supposing it doesn't come.
In other words, you don't believe it.
No, you wouldn't say that.
Because you said it's come.
It's not for you to get it to
come.
That's God's business.
Put him on the spot and keep him
on the spot.
Really nice.
Stick it there, that's all.
Go on saying it.
Don't go in.
If you have said the word of faith,
that's put God in action, not you.
He's given himself to you available for that
purpose.
He's put God in action.
Leave him in action.
It's done.
Stick by that.
You die for it.
Stick by that.
Now, that's a son, sons of God in
spirit action.
In spirit action, because your attitude is this
top one all the time, praising, accepting, believing,
in the ridiculous circumstances.
And then you help other people do.
Make a difference between sympathy and compassion.
Sympathy lies you down with people where they
are.
It doesn't help.
Maybe you have to do a little bit.
You'll just help the old poor things when
they're poor things.
It doesn't help them.
It helps you a little to feel nice
that you've been like that.
That's all.
Compassion is sympathy.
It helps you to take the attitude you
like to take over as a person.
Compassion is the attitude you need to take
for them.
Compassion, they need to quickly believe God.
And so, to operate them, people, instead of
being all taught up, saying, no, it's all
play.
God means this.
You watch.
You praise God, you see what happens.
That shouldn't be to help other people like
that.
So this is faith attitude, and faith action.
Some of you do it.
But I can't stop now.
But I mean, my whole life has been
spent that way.
My whole life has been lived on words
of faith.
I had a little tiny mission with a
handful.
We've become a great world mission now with
thousands all around the place.
And it was sympathy.
God said, that's it.
Thanks this year, I'll give you 10.
Next year, he gives 15.
Next year, he gives 75.
Next year, he gives 50.
We've just been taking, taking, taking from God
all the time.
So we don't have to bother with humour.
It's a nuisance.
I can't get anything out of it.
I can't get anything out of humour.
They're too mean.
I'd rather get it out of God.
It's much better.
It's all.
It's an easy life.
That's the secret.
So that's just the spirit phase of this
co-operative life, the fatherhood life of God.
A little bit tomorrow, for the last moment,
we'll speak about the body phase, when we
get to action of bodies.
That's as little as we can do for
the night.