Don't Ignore These Tokens of Faith
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Summary
In one line: Tokens of faith — oil, dust, bare feet, the stars, the cross — have no power in themselves, but in God's hands they express God.
Key insights
- How they bought the LA church building (asking price ~$8M, money not there): he took oil — "if I can hold it in my hand I can possess it" — took off his shoes and walked the land ("wherever the sole of your foot treads…", Joshua 1:3), and held the dust of the ground — "physically I can't hold the building; spiritually, holding its dust, I control it."
- You don't have to do it — but the wise understand. Under the stars when your career is stuck: "There are billions of stars and all can be seen — let my star shine too" (cf. Genesis 15:5).
- Jesus' star wasn't one huge star — only the wise men from the east noticed it (Matthew 2:2).
- The cross: Rome's symbol of death became our symbol of life; Satan now inverts and breaks it to provoke us. "Who created wood? God." Yet some Christians call the cross pagan.
Transcript
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These are called tokens of faith.
These are simply called tokens of faith.
Of themself they have no power.
But in the hands of God they can express God.
When we wanted to buy the the the church building that we own in Los Angeles what we did was we went to the church. They told us 8 million something.
The money wasn't there. I said, "Ah, let's take this oil." We took this oil. If I can hold it in my hand, it means I can possess the place.
[applause and cheering]
applause
The first thing that I did is I took off my shoes. Stepped with my feet. The Bible says, "Wherever the soles of your feet shall step you shall possess." Then I took my hand to possess it. Physically, I can't hold the building like this.
Yeah.
Spiritually, me holding the the dust or the the the dust of that ground in my hand I I'm controlling it.
Are you getting what I'm saying?
You're holding it in your hand. What is impossible for you to possess it? Physically, you can't hug it. You can't put it in your pocket. Spiritually, this is a part of it. If I can grab it, I have it.
So, all this is spiritual understanding.
These are simply tokens of faith.
They facilitate the expression of the spirit of God. They facilitate the expression of the spirit of God through you. But, if you are a baby Christian to you say, "Oh, you don't need to do that." The truth is, do you need to? You don't have to. You don't have to do anything I'm telling you.
But, what I'm telling you, if you're wise, you will know. You imagine you wake up at night.
Your career is having issues.
You look at the stars and you can see stars overlapping each other, but you can still see them. You say, "Lord, these stars up here, there's billions of them, uncountable. But, we can see all of them. I am among men that are not even the number of these stars. How am I overshadowed?"
Father, as the stars of heaven, as the sky is big enough to contain all of them, and all of them can be seen, let my star also begin to shine to be seen. Notice,
I yeah, I'm I'm talking to the wrong people.
[cheering]
Are you getting what I'm saying?
It is like how was the Jesus how how was the star of our Lord Jesus seen above all stars?
But, yet regular men were looking, they couldn't see it. You know when you look at the nativity story you see one huge star. It wasn't like that. If men from the east are the only ones that noticed it. It wasn't like that.
All this just expressions of God. They are tokens of faith. They are expressing to you something. They are telling you a story. They are telling you of God's ability and power but only if you are wise you will see it.
The Romans used the cross as a symbol of death. We took ownership of it. It became a symbol of life.
Satan is now realized we have made it a symbol of life. They changed how the cross look. They break it. They put it in weird position to aggravate us. Why? Because what it thought will scare us became a symbol of life. We took owner because who created wood? God. Who created trees? God. So we took the cross means salvation.
But there are Christians today you show them the cross they will say that's pagan.