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Desires
Mt 11:22 And Jesus
answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.
Mark 11:23 For verily I say
unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be
thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that
those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he
saith.
Mark 11:24 Therefore I say
unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive
them, and ye shall have them.
In this opening Scripture,
I wish to show you three things today.
First…Have Faith in God
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We say
it every day…
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When we
see people who are going through trials and tribulations in their lives, it is
easy for us to walk up to a brother or a sister and say…just have faith.
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But
when the trials come at you it becomes a different story.
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Our
faith becomes weak
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Our
hopes diminish
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And
doubts start to creep into the small part of the back of our minds and we
wonder…God, are you there?
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Satan
kicks his deception up a degree or two and the next thing you know is that you
are down at the local tavern will all those others who have lost faith in:
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Their
lives
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Their
families
o
Their
friends
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They
have given up the true promise of what God can do if…they have had their faith.
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What is
that true promise of God if we have faith?
o
Is it
Peace in our hearts knowing that we have given God:
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all
our problems,
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all
our worries,
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All our
fears
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Is it
hope of eternal life with all our dreams realized?
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True
love
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Comfort
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No more
sorrow
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No pain
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No
hunger
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A body
that never ages
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Peace
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Understanding
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Is it
to be back in the garden of Eden
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Walking
hand in hand with the lord
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A
family that loves
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A
family that cares
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A
father that you can sit in his lap and just love on as a little child.
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Faith
is something unseen
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Faith
is a verb…it’s an action that must be taken.
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Faith
is trust beyond all measure.
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Faith
is continuous..You don’t turn it off or turn it on.
Mark 11:22 And Jesus
answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.
Mark says
take it possess it do it and then leave it in God’s hands. That is faith….
Mark 11:23 For verily I say
unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be
thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that
those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he
saith.
The second thing.
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How
many of us here today…have seen miracles in our lives.
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How
many of us here have seen prayers answered.
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How
many of us have prayed in sincerity that God will do what we ask if we ask in
the right manner if it is his will.
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But
when we pray that we give god the option to do what he wants and not what we are
asking for.
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Is that
what the scripture states?
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Is this
the verse the preachers talk about having riches on earth…?
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Just
pray for it.
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Just
ask God and believe in it and it will happen.
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You can
have health happiness and riches on earth if we just ask and believe.
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The key
to this is having the mind of Christ in our prayers and the purpose of those
prayers…
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In all
things we are to glorify our father in heaven.
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In all
things we should pray as Christ would pray…”thy will be done on earth as it is
in heaven”
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Would
you give glory to God by moving a mountain…Brother James did this and Brother
James did that…not god did this and God did that.
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Who
gets the glory……?
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What is
the most powerful pray that we know god will listen to an answer.
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Praying
for the salvation of others
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Praying
that people will come to know Christ our lord and savior.
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Praying
for spiritual healing and not physical healing.
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God is
more concerned with what happens in our lives as it leads up to his saving
grace.
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God is
more concerned with us knowing who his son is and he is not interested in us
having a sing or a dinner, or even a get together for dinner after church, or an
anointing someone to be healed. …unless it will lead someone to learn that Jesus
died for them at Calvary 2000 years ago.
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If you
want to move a mountain…how about the mountains that keep us separated from our
lord and savior.
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The
mountain of pride
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The
mountain of anger
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The
mountain of selfishness
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The
mountain of alcoholism
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The
mountain of drugs
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The
mountain of pornography
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There
is a whole mountain range call the sinful mountains.
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We are
on one side and God is on the other
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And the
faith of moving those mountains is that we get to see Jesus.
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God
will help us move those mountains.
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If you
let him…and that is where faith in God comes in..
Mark 11:24 Therefore I say
unto you, What things so ever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive
them, and ye shall have them.
Third Then there
is that word desire…
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To:
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Wish
for
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To
crave
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To want
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To long
for
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To need
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Is god
saying that whatever we desire, whatever we need will come true if we ask,
believe in faith and we shall receive?
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Is the
scripture repeating what was said in the second verse?
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Again
we have to look at what is it we desire….
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Is it a
new car
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A new
home
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A new
job
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Money
in the bank
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To win
the lottery
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What is
it we need…simply:
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The
clothes on our back
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Money
to pay the bills
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A home
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Food on
the table
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But
there is a mountain range we are trying to climb over.
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The
biggest peak is desire peak…oh and how big is it…
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Every
day to we say I sure wish this and wish that.
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Then we
begin to lust after it.
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We get
jealous if someone else gets it and we don’t
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Then
who knows what other mountains get in our way to achieve what we want.
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Murder
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Thief
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Adultery
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What
happens when we get want we want?
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We are
spoiled like little children
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We have
it then we get tired of it and then we move on to the next desire in our life.
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I
believe for God to answer our prayers we really need to know the one thing we
really desire.
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Think
about it….
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What is
it all of us want?
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What is
it all of us need?
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What is
it we cannot live without?
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Do you
know…?
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Have
you figured it out yet?
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Let me
tell you what it is we all desire.
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What it
is all of us need
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And
what it is that without we die.
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It is
love…
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God
created us to love
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God
created us to give love
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God
created us to be love
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The one
thing that our hearts desire is love.
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That is
why there are bars all over the town.
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People
go to the bars to seek
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Fellowship
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To be
able to speak to people
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To
develop friendships
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To find
some kind of relationship
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It may
be the wrong relationship.
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Girls
walk the streets, prostituting themselves to:
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find
love,
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to find
a relationship
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to find
a meaning to life
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And men
pick up these girls for the same reasons.
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We are
here today because we seek it, we need it and we will die without it.
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We are
here to be loved
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By our
family of friends
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By God
himself
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God
created us to be in a relationship with him and with each other.
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To love
and to be loved that is our hearts desire.
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God
created us so that it is more than love of another human being because that will
never be enough.
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God
created us to have a relationship with Him and if we never have a relationship
with God or relationships with others then we will or our souls will start to
shrivel up and we will die inside of us.
Mark 11:22 And Jesus
answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.
Mark 11:23 For verily I say
unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be
thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that
those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he
saith.
Mark 11:24 Therefore I say
unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive
them, and ye shall have them.
These verses show us that
we must:
1.
Have faith in
God and God alone…not in our selves but in Jesus Christ.
2.
We need to
believe that God will answer our prayers but there are mountains in our lives
that must be moves…and god will moved them if we believe.
3.
And if we
focus our hearts on our real desires:
a.
To be loved
and to love
b.
Then we shall
have them.
Let me read out of James
before we close:
Jas 4:1
¶ From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of
your lusts that war in your members?
Jas 4:2
Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight
and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
Jas 4:3
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your
lusts.
Jas 4:4
Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is
enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy
of God.
Jas 4:5
Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us
lusteth to envy?
Jas 4:6
But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but
giveth grace unto the humble.
Jas 4:7
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Jas 4:8
Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners;
and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
Jas 4:9
Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and
your joy to heaviness.
Jas 4:10
Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
Jas 4:11 ¶ Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his
brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law:
but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
Jas 4:12
There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that
judgest another?
Jas 4:13
Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and
continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:
Jas 4:14
Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is
even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
Jas 4:15
For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
Jas 4:16
But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
Jas 4:17
Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
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