Friday, December 30, 2011

SIN- Willful rejection of God


Definition of Sin

Vines Expository Dictionary of the OT and NT Words states, “The Sin in the OT was  “Missing of the mark,” but this meaning is largely lost sight of in the (NT).”  From the free-online dictionary some of the following statements are given for sin, such as:  Deliberate disobedience to the known will of God, the condition of estrangement from God resulting from such disobedience, or violation of religious or moral law.



One of the two main modern explanations or definitions of sin is called missing-the-mark. Sin is not missing-the-mark! Missing-the-mark implies we practiced and tried the best we could to shoot and hit the bull-eye of a target, but since we are all human and none of us are perfect, we just could not hit the bulls-eye---we missed-the-mark! That’s not sin! If we do the best we can for God, He will be pleased and then will help us do better. The second most used explanation of sin is breaking laws that tell us not to murder, rob, or rape, and these are not SIN either; they are acts of sin or acts as a result of sin in our hearts. Jesus taught in the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew Chapters 5, 6 and 7 and in many other places that sin is the rejection of or refusing to accept God, His Word, His will, or any form of God into our hearts.  When the fellowship or union of our heart with God’s Spirit is broken by our rejection, we have sinned. Then with the rejection in our hearts to Gods  Spirit, we can perform many evil acts of sin, but sin is still only the blocking of God’s love, His Living Word, Christ, from entering into our heart for whatever the situation God is speaking to us. Murder only takes place after we have blocked God’s love in our heart for someone and then we allowed the bad feelings to grow to hate and overflow to the person in an acts of sin which could be murder or many other things, Hebrews 12:14-15 states, "Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: (15) Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled." 

For Christians, all acts of sin, robbery, rape, idol worship, and adultery only take place after we break or reject God’s flow of love into our hearts for the person or circumstances, and instead allow lusts, hate, greed and pride to come into our hearts again. We Christians never lose all of God’s Living Word in us, but just like we can grow in grace by receiving more of God’s Word in us, we can also lose grace by rejecting God’s Word which we had previously received to faith and grace in our hearts.

A simple example of a Christian sin which does not mean we have lost our
salvation is discussed in 2 Corinthians 2:10-11 which says that we must forgive others lest we give satan the advantage in our lives. We know it is God’s Will for us to forgive others; therefore, when we willfully reject God’s Word for us to forgive others we are rejecting the work of grace in our hearts for someone because we decide to not forgive them.  We are breaking our proper fellowship with God by rejecting His Love, the work of grace from our hearts and through us to the other person. We have rejected the flow of God’s Love in and through us to the other person and –that is SIN!

 Non-Christians do not have the Spirit of Christ in their hearts and are totally void of  God's Spirit in their hearts.  Non-Christians must
live by some moral code they hopefully have been taught which will keep them from performing the acts of sin. Even though non-Christians can perform a lot of terrible, evil, deeds or acts of sin, their only SIN is the total separation of their heart from God, which is no different than we all were before accepting Christ into our hearts, see Ephesians 2:1-5. The non-Christian’s heart is totally void of God, the Spirit of Christ or any other name you might call God because we are all born with a heart empty of God’s Spirit, or in total Spiritual separation from God, or we are born in total SIN!

We do not sin against people. We obviously can commit terrible acts of torture, destruction and hurt to others, but the sin is when we in our hearts break the flow of God’s Love to that person.  David says in Psalms 51:4, “Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight:..” We might do many bad things to people, but the sin was in our heart rejecting God’s love which resulted in the many different possible acts of sin. Sin is always the rejection or blocking God’s Love to us for ourselves personally or rejecting the Love He wants to share through us to others.  When we as Christians have committed acts of sin against others, we should certainly try to make it up to them when we turn back to God and receive His love for them into our hearts. 

 When we willfully reject God’s Word by blocking the flow of God's Love to us and in our hearts, as mentioned above, we have given the devil advantage and control in our lives, (See 1 John 5:19). The devil knows we are out of fellowship with God so he will then try to lead us into all kinds of evil activity which might result in many evil acts against others because of our sin.  Charity is the name given for the work of God’s love in and through a Christian’s heart that is then shared to edify and build others up in the Lord. Sin for Christians is when we reject and stop the flow of God’s love to us personally from coming into our hearts for our personal edification, and then secondly when we break the flow of God’s love in and through our hearts to others that God wants us to share His Love with in acts of charity.

First, God may be teaching us that we need to change something in our lives; such as, our temper, bad language, drinking, smoking, etc. When we recognize God speaking to us and that He wants us to make a personal change, if we refuse to accept His Word of correction to faith in our hearts, then we have also refused the work of grace needed in our hearts to help us make His desired change in us, and that is sin. We have rejected and blocked God’s love from entering our hearts for that situation, and we have sinned! God hurts because we will not allow Him to make us who He wants us to be for His future use.  We hurt because we have refused to receive His love, and we will be in unbelief, which is rejection of God, His Word,or His Will for that situation, and we will be out of fellowship with God during this time.  All of those people around us will miss blessings because we will never become the people God wants us to be to help edify them, and our families and neighbors will not even know they are missing some of God's blessings because we are out of fellowship with God. Also, many of our prayers for our loved ones, friends, businesses, and our country will go unanswered while we are out of fellowship with God by our willfully choosing to reject His love in our hearts for our correction.  Hebrews 11:6 states that it is impossible to please God without faith.  Therefore, while we are failing to receive Him, His Word or Love into our hearts for the particular circumstances, we are not pleasing to God because faith comes by hearing and heeding God’s Word, Rom 10:17 and Ps 119:9.   He still loves us but we are not pleasing to Him, and 1 John 3:22 states, “And whatsoever we ask, we receive of Him, because we keep His commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in His sight.”  John 15:7 states, "If ye abide in me, and my Words abide in you, ask what ye will and it shall be done unto you."  We must allow God's Word to abide in our hearts if we are to be pleasing to God.  Also anytime we willfully reject God’s Word we are giving satan the advantage in our lives and during this time he will do everything he can to destroy us with curses and by attacks of others that he is in control of.



The second way Christians sin is as discussed above when God is trying to use us to share His love through us with someone as an act of charity, but we have unforgiveness or other bad feelings for that person. We will be sinning because we will be rejecting and blocking God’s Love from entering into our hearts and through our hearts to perform an act of charity, sharing God’s Love, to that person. God hurts because after all His Love and His forgiveness to us, we still do not love Him enough to receive His love in our hearts for the person for whom we are refusing to forgive.

The Scriptures state in Ephesians 4:32, “And be ye kind one to another,
tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath
forgiven you.” We hurt because we cannot receive the extra love God wants
to put in our hearts for the other person we have chosen not to forgive. When we reject any of God’s Word to unbelief and are out of fellowship with God, the devil has advantage in our lives as discussed above. During this time, the devil will bring as much evil, curses, and destruction as he can sneak into our lives while we delay repenting and turning back to ask God’s forgiveness. God cannot forgive us though unless we have prepared our hearts to forgive the other person because we hold the switch to forgiveness; we chose to forgive, and God will forgive us; while we are refusing to forgive because we have chosen to refuse God's Love for that person, we have switched God off and He cannot forgive us because we have pushed Him away by our unforgiveness to the other person.  Therefore, we must act first then God will respond and forgive us.  The evidence of sin and the devil having been given control in Christians’ lives can be seen throughout Christianity if we first look at the curses in Deuteronomy 28 and then compare those curses to what we see in the lives of Christians around us. God does not bring curses into our lives, and God does not allow curses when we are submitted to His control by accepting and obeying His Word, and curses do not just happen, Proverbs 26:2 says, “...So the curse causeless shall not come.” The only way Christians can receive the curses in Deuteronomy 28 is to have willfully given satan control in their lives by rejecting some of God’s Word. In most cases their rejection probably seemed to be unimportant at the time when they did it because it only resulted in little sinful acts like, “white lies,” gossip, arguing, envying, lusting, prejudices, respect of persons, and other common every day sinful acts that are not often even visible to others around us. But these everyday occurrences as small as they seem to be are still sin, the rejection of God’s Love in our hearts and through us for those situations, and they also give the devil the advantage in each of these situations. The greatest healthcare program any of us Christians could have is to get on our knees now and ask God’s forgiveness for all of those years of giving satan the advantage in our lives through these “little” sins, and then start showing fear and respect for God’s Word. Christians sin when we fail to let the grace of God grow in our hearts, or when we refuse to allow God to work His Grace through our hearts to others in acts of charity. In
both cases we are rejecting God’s Love from our hearts which is refusing the work of grace for whatever the situation is that God is asking of us.

The ideal situation is for us to live filled with the Spirit of Christ, the Living Word, in our hearts. Jesus is the only One who received and walked in
the fullness of the Spirit continually. In John 1:14 the Scripture states, “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 Scripture states in John 3:34, “For He whom God hath sent speaketh the Words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto Him.” We all grow in receiving the Spirit of Christ in our hearts as we receive more of God’s Living Word, Christ. The Apostle Paul explains this truth in Ephesians 4:7, “But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ,” for Christ is the Living Word. As we study and receive more of the Living Word, Christ, into our hearts, we are growing in faith and grace. Paul also states in Ephesians 4:11-13, “And He gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; (12) For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry; for the edifying (building up in the Lord) of the body of Christ: (13) Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.” Jesus came in the fullness of the Spirit of the Living Word working in His heart, grace, and in the fullness of God’s spoken Word, truth. We each will grow in His Spirit and grace as we receive through our faith God’s Living Word into our hearts to produce the work of grace for our growth in Christ. Every time we hear God’s Word we have the opportunity to grow in grace, to grow in Christ, and to grow in faith if we make the free-will choice to receive God’s Word into our hearts to faith and grace. We have the total free-will choice. God will not make us accept His Word, and the devil cannot keep us from accepting God’s Word or make us reject God’s Word. Our growth in the Lord is totally based on our free-will choices and that is why it is so important to be praying, studying the Bible, and seeking opportunities to hear God’s Rhema, the Living Word, Christ. We should each make our commitment right now to set aside time each day to pray and study God’s Word. We can each grow in His Spirit, grace, and faith as much as we choose; there is no limit. Choose Faith, God’s Word, with Love, God’s Spirit!



Sin: Sin is when we chose to reject the flow of God’s love into our hearts or through our hearts to others. Sin is not missing-the-mark! Sin is when we willfully reject God putting His love in our hearts for a particular situation or person. Sin hurts everyone: God, us, and everyone else. With sin blocking God’s love from coming into our hearts, we will not become the people God wants us to be, and others will not receive the blessings that God wants to channel through us to them. While we are sinning, blocking God’s Love into our hearts, we will be willfully giving satan the advantage of control in our lives and his only purpose is to destroy us.

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God Bless You and have a good day!

Friday, November 4, 2011

Is God going to pour out an end-time revival? No! We must respond to His initiative!


Is God going to pour out an end-time revival as so many preachers and evangelists are predicting?  NO! He is waiting for us!



I grew up in the 50’s at the Baptist Children’s Home in Bartlett, TN.  Each spring and fall we had a one-week revival at the little Bartlett Baptist Church at the railroad crossing and Stage Road in Bartlett.  The church looks like a little wedding chapel now, but it was big then to us kids.  I used to know how many tile were on the ceiling, but my memory fails me now.  The revival meetings would be from one Sunday morning until the next Sunday night which would be ten meetings per week each spring and fall.  You could always count on the Sunday night or Monday night message being on 2 Chronicles 7:14 which states, “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”  Since then I have heard many, many messages on the above verse from ministers of most denominations and inter-faith groups.  It is still as true today as it was each time I heard it before, and it is the only “formula” that I know of that will bring revival at any time.  ONE thing that it points out is that God does not just decide to pour out revival at specific times!  If He did He would have to violate our free will and make us turn to Him from our lazy, lukewarm, compromising to false doctrines and our failing to commit our lives to His service.  God has been calling for revival every since Adam and Eve sinned.  He has sent prophets, priests and good godly kings to turn people or draw people to Him.  Israel was supposed to be His nation of priests on earth to reach out to the other nations and be His examples here on earth to draw all people to Him.    In 1 Kings Chapter 8 at the dedication of the great temple that Solomon had build for God, a promise from God to all people on earth was included in the dedication service, 1 Kings 8:41-43, “Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name’s sake: (42) (For they shall hear of thy great name, and of thy strong hand, and of thy stretched out arm;) when he shall come and pray toward this house; (43) Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for: that all people of the earth may know thy name, to fear thee, as do thy people Israel; and that they may know that this house, which I have builded, is called by thy name.”  And in Psalms 67:1-2, “God be merciful unto us, and bless us; and cause His face to shine upon us; Selah.  (2) That thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all nations.”  The children of Israel, Jews, failed their calling, for they never became the example of God blessing His people on earth to draw the other nations to Him.  God even sent His Son, Jesus, and changed the covenant with mankind to make the relationship between God and man even better because we now receive His Spirit in our hearts and become His children at salvation.  In Jeremiah 22:29 God says, “O earth, earth, earth, hear the Word of the Lord.”  God has always called out to mankind to come to Him.  God wants our revival now as He always has in the past!

Most of us Christians, or those who call themselves Christians, would probably confess to humbling ourselves at least enough to become a Christian, but would probably not confess to being very humble most of the time so that we could still sound humble.  If we confessed to being a very humble person then pride would probably erase it.  To be humble means that we must humble, bow in our hearts, to God’s Word and receive His Word into our hearts for whatever He speaks to us.    Jesus says in John 6:45, “…And they shall all be taught of God.  Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.”  When God teaches us we are a sinner, we must choose to humble our hearts to His Word and accept that we are a sinner.  That is an element of faith, for Romans 10:17 says that faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of the Lord---but only if we accept or heed God’s Word.  So when God teaches us we are a sinner and we humble our heart to His Word and accept His Word in our heart that we are a sinner, we have a measure of faith.  Then after God teaches us that Jesus is our only way to get forgiveness of our sin and cleansing from our sin, we must again choose to humble our hearts to His Word and accept that Jesus is the only answer for our sins that is acceptable and pleasing to God, and this becomes another measure of faith for us.  When we come to this knowledge from God that we are a sinner and that Jesus is the answer for our sin, we must again choose to respond positively to God’s Word of salvation by choosing to humble our hearts, repent from our sin, ask God’s forgiveness of our sin and invite His Spirit, Christ the Living Word, to come into and cleanse our hearts as He adopts us into His family as one of His children.  So, through faith in the Words God has taught us we have responded by inviting His Living Word, Christ, into our hearts to perform the work of Grace which forgives our sins, creates in us the new heard and adopts us into the family of God.  We are saved by Grace through our accepting God’s Words to faith in our hearts, Ephesians 2:8.  The Apostle Peter and James in 1 Peter 5:5 and James 4:6 state, “…God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.”  Hebrews 4:2 tells of some who hear God’s Words and do not respond by accepting them by faith into their hearts, “For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.”



To be humble means to submit in our heart to God’s Word, and it is always pride that causes us to choose to do something our way and reject God’s Word.  After we receive God’s Living Word in our hearts and become Christians, the Scripture states that “the just shall live by faith,” which means that we must continue to humble our hearts and receive God’s Word into our hearts as we walk and live with Him daily.  If He asks us to preach, teach a class, lead a devotional, we must humble our hearts, receive His Word into our hearts and trust Him to help us do whatever it is that He is asking.

 NOW, for REVIVAL, we must each humble our hearts and be willing to accept God’s Word to us that we have rejected since we received Christ into our hearts at salvation.    When we reject any of His Word, whether in the Scriptures or His Word to us personally about our service, we are in unbelief as the children of Israel when they refused to cross over the Jordan River into the Promised Land because they did not trust God would protect them from the giants.  They knew God’s Will but because they didn’t trust Him they rejected to unbelief, Psalms 95:9-11, “When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work. (10) forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways: (11) Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.” And in Hebrews 3:19, “So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.”  Unbelief is when we know God’s Will for us or His Word about some doctrine or belief and we reject it because of failing to trust God or because of what we think our friends will think of us. Maybe we know speaking in tongues is real but are afraid of what others in our church will say about us or that we might be asked to leave our church fellowship.   When God calls us to preach, teach or whatever, we may be too embarrassed to tell others, or we may be too comfortable in our present life to want to make such a change.  Unbelief is a problem of an evil heart, we know God’s Word or Will but do not love Him enough to accept and obey Him. 

The first step in revival is for His people, us Christians, to prepare our hearts to seek Him, and it is sin if we continue needing revival and do not turn to seek Him as stated in 2 Chronicles 12:14, “And he (Rehoboam, Solomon’s son) did evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek the Lord.” That is the first step of revival! God is waiting for us to decide to turn and seek Him!  When we honestly arrive in our hearts to the point that we just want all of what God has for us, or we just want to be whatever He wants us to be, or things of this life do not matter we just want His will, then He will be ready to talk to us as He states in Deuteronomy 4:29 and Jeremiah 29:13, “And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.”  No sense in even thinking about revival unless WE each personally are willing to go back and talk to God honestly and seek to become what He wanted us to be that we turned from, as given in 2 Timothy 1:9, “Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began.”  We must each be open and honest with God and seek Him with all our hearts.  We must be willing to even do things we have never done before; such as, teach a class, help the neighbor of a different race, visit in nursing homes, hospitals and prisons, and accept His pure Word whether our denomination teaches it or not.  We must be willing to talk to God about our accepting things we knew He wanted us to do when we were younger, but we wouldn’t take the time.  SEE, the first step of revival is to get our hearts humbled into the position or attitude that God we really want whatever you have for us now, and we want all you have for us regardless of what it might mean, even if it were to mean leaving a church or group we have been in for so long. 

The second part of revival is for us to turn to God with our prepared humble heart only wanting His Word and pray which is just talking to God about our specific situation.  As we seek Him with all our hearts, He will then reveal to each one of us our “wicked ways,” that we have committed to turning from, and He will show us where He wants us to turn or go as God states in Psalms 32:8, “I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.”  Many people have put denominational beliefs above what they know to be true from reading God’s Word because they are afraid of the results of the changed they would have to make.  We should still be seeing the mighty works of God that were demonstrated in the Book of Acts, for we are under the same covenant that the disciples and early Christians were and if things were changed for us God would have made a newer covenant with us to rule out the miracles of Acts. 

After we have prepared our hearts by humbling them and getting our selfish pride out of the way, then talk to the Lord as we seek His face and turn from the wicked ways He reveals to us, THEN He will hear and respond to our prayers in a pleasing or favorable manner by then pouring out His blessings of health and prosperity in every area of our lives as He promises to His people in Deuteronomy 28.  He will even heal our physical “Land” by providing the rains in proper amounts in due seasons, and will bless our crops again, and expose the evil persons in our government and provide honest decent people again to lead our land.  God will be blessing us so much in ways that we didn't ask that it will appear to outsiders that God is pouring out revival.  He certainly will be encouraging us on!



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Join with me in helping to turn our people to the pure Word of God discussed in Proverbs 30:5-6 which states, “Every Word of God is  pure: He (God in the form of His Word) is a shield unto them that put their trust in Him (His Word). (6) Add thou not unto His Words, lest He reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.”  As God’s Ambassadors we are to speak God’s pure word without changing even a comma, -dash or even a letter.  If we change anything, it is not His Word and we will be just speaking our words which He will not back up. 

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Ephesians 4:4-6, “There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; (5) One Lord, one faith, one baptism, (6) One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.”  And later in Verses 11 – 13, “And He gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; (12) For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: (13) Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.”



No group is presently trying to bring the different denominational and non-denominational Christians into one faith!  Maybe through the internet we can start a move to bring the Christian community into a unity of the one faith, and then maybe God will intervene and make the changes we need and have been praying for in our nation.



God Bless You and have a blessed day. 





Richard Hardin


Sunday, October 23, 2011

How do we know God answers our prayers?




Dr Charles Stanley, Intouch Ministries in Atlanta, Georgia, states on his website about his weekly Christian TV broadcast, “Faith often begins to wane when adversity strikes or when prayers seem to go unanswered. But the thrilling thing about knowing the Lord Jesus Christ is that our heavenly Father hears us when we pray. Trusting God means looking beyond what we can see to what God sees.”

During the message he asked, “Why do you believe that God answers prayer?” and then Dr Stanley answers that we should believe God answers prayer because He (God) is faithful.  Then Dr. Stanley reads several Scriptures of how faithful God is and how great God’s promises are!  These Scriptures would be good to try to encourage  someone to start praying and seeking God, but anyone who has been a Christian for even a week should know that God answers prayer.  Becoming a Christian is the result of an answer to prayer.  When we see ourselves in our hearts as sinners and cry out or pray to God for forgiveness, when He forgives us, cleanses our hearts and adopts us into His family, whatever the hurt, sin or filth that was in our heart that we asked him to forgive and remove, we should recognize that it has been removed because He then puts His Spirit of love in our hearts in its place as an answer to our prayer. 


Knowing God’s faithfulness and His great promises are not the reasons to believe that God answers prayers, you should know God answers prayer because He is answering your prayers!  If you are not getting personal answers to prayer and just have to quote some Bible verses that say that God answers prayers, you really do not have a very personal or good relationship with God. As a Christian you should be seeing family and friends being healed, people being “saved”, finances being supplied.  This is not just an intellectual game of finding the right answers to test questions in the Scriptures. 


Jesus says that we all can get personal answers to prayer in John 15:7, “If ye abide in me, and my Words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.” And 1 John 3:22 states similarly, “And whatsoever we ask, we receive of Him, because we keep His commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in His sight.”


Isaiah 59:1-2 tells why we do not get answers to our prayers, “Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither His ear heavy, that it cannot hear: (2) But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid His face from you, that He will not hear.”  None of us are perfect, but we must seek to keep the sins of jealousy, greed, unforgiveness, respect of persons, anger from our hearts.  In fact, 1 Peter 3:7 states that the way men treat their wives may be blocking their prayers, “Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them (wives) according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.”


So if the only reason you can say that God answers prayers is because the Bible says He does, then start seeking God and reading His Word to find out what we must do to get answers.  He requires us to respond to Him in certain ways and none of us get a free pass, we must each come to Him on His terms, not ours. 


To get an idea of some of the different ways God speaks to us, watch my videos, “Hearing God Speak,” “Prayer Changes Things (1 and 2),” and “Deliverance Prayer,” in the list on the right of this page.
This message or subject reminds me of the song some of us were taught as children which goes like this, “Jesus loves me this I know, for the Bible tells me so…” If the only reason you, me or anyone else believes Jesus loves us is because the Bible says so, we better work on our personal relationship with Him.  After walking with and seeking Him for 30+ years, I know He loves me and answers my prayers because He makes His presence known to me every day.  When we become a Christian He forgives us, adopts us into His family as joint-heirs with Jesus to all of His promises and fellowships with us daily.

God Bless You and have a good day! 

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Andrew Wommack's Faith and Grace


Andrew Wommack, from Colorado Springs, made the following comments on his worldwide Daystar TV program which is on at 7:30 AM CST in Oklahoma City.  On Sep 9, 2011, “You have all the faith in you – you don’t need any more.”  And on Oct 4, 2011, “Faith is your positive response to what God has already done by grace, which is unmerited, undeserved and unearned.”  God has not already done anything by grace because grace is the work of the Spirit of God in our hearts and that only happens when we by faith receive God’s Words into our hearts. 

First, In 2 Thessalonians 1:3 the Apostle Paul thanks God for their growing faith, “We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith growth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth.”  Also, faith comes through us hearing God’s Word, if, or when we receive His Word into our hearts.  Therefore, we must be studying and praying to receive more of God’s Word into our hearts to grow in faith.  Romans 10:17 states, “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.”

Hearing has the root of “heeding” as stated in Psalms 119:9, “Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking “heed” thereto according to thy Word.” When we hear God’s Word, we must take heed to God’s Word by choosing to receive His Word into our hearts, not just knowing it intellectually in our heads.  Jesus says in John 6:63, “…the Words that I speak unto you, they are Spirit, and they are life.”  Therefore, when we choose to receive God’s Words into our hearts, we are receiving Jesus’ Spirit, the Spirit of Christ who is the Living Word creator of the Universe, into our hearts to faith.  We grow in faith by receiving more of the Spirit of God’s Words into our hearts, and to receive more we must make the choice to perform whatever action required on our part to study, seek, hear and receive more of His Words into our hearts to receive more faith which comes from His Words.



Once we have chosen to receive God’s Words into our hearts, when the Words enter our hearts and begin to work in us, we call that action a work of Grace.  Grace is the work of the Spirit of Christ, the Living Word of God, in our hearts to first create in us the new heart at salvation when we first receive Him in our hearts, and then grace, the work of the Spirit in our hearts, helps us grow as we receive more of God’s Word by faith into our hearts as we walk with the Lord.



Grace may be undeserved and unmerited, but there is something we must do to receive grace: We must choose to receive God’s Words into our hearts by faith.  Faith describes the positive receiving of God’s Word into our heart.  When the Spirit of God’s Word, Christ, enters our hearts, the work of the Spirit in our hearts is called grace.  Ephesians 2:8 states, “For by grace are we saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God.”  When we hear God’s Words of the gospel and then choose to receive the Words of salvation into our hearts, we have received the Spirit of the Words by faith into our hearts to perform the work of grace in us for salvation: our forgiveness, new heart and adoption into the family as a child of God.  Hebrews 4:2 states, “For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the Word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.”  When a person hears any of God’s Word, there is an automatic required response to either accept it or reject it.  There is no in between or partial acceptance.  If it is not accepted exactly as God has stated, then instead of faith from God’s Word, the person will be in unbelief, which is an evil heart of rejecting God’s Word like the Children of Israel in Hebrews 3:12-19.   Faith only comes when we respond positively to His pure Word with no changes.  Then when the Word comes into our hearts “it”, Christ the Living Word, performs the work of grace in our hearts to help us fulfill the requirements of the Word that God spoke to us.



We must seek to grow in faith by receiving more of God’s Word into our hearts by study and fellowship with God in our daily lives. 



Grace is always the automatic work of the Spirit of the Words of God that we receive into our hearts by our choice to faith.  We choose to accept His Words to faith in our hearts and then the Words in our hearts produce the work of grace in us.



When we choose to accept in our hearts to faith that we are a sinner, that Christ is the answer for our sin, and we humble ourselves and call our to Jesus for forgiveness, then Jesus will send His Living Word, Christ, into our hearts to produce the work of grace in our hearts for salvation.  We are saved by the work of grace in our hearts as a result of us accepting and receiving the Words of the gospel by faith.



For more information watch a couple of my videos about faith and grace.



Have a blessed day,  Richard Hardin

Tuesday, September 27, 2011


I watched Mr. Kerry Shook on TBN-TV Tues Sep 27.  He spent the first 10 minutes exclaiming over and over about God’s unmerited favor, which he called “grace”, and said that there is nothing we can do to earn or receive grace.  He used Noah and Jehoshaphat as being in position to receive God’s grace.  Then he said we have to take one step at a time for God to move us into position to receive grace, and that we must continue to keep taking one step, one step, then another, on and on to follow God’s Word to get into position to receive God’s grace.   After all that time teaching that we do not have to do anything, he turned around and said we have to make the choice to follow God step by step to be in the position to receive His grace.  Which is it?  We do nothing, or do we have to make the choice and actively follow Him?  If we must follow Him, then there is something we must do---choose to follow Him and do it!

Actually his idea of grace is incorrect.  Grace is not God’s unmerited favor!  Favor is associated with mercy-God’s love to mankind.  Unmerited favor is shown in Romans 2:4, “Or despises thou the riches of His goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance.”  God’s unmerited favor is His mercy and kindness to lost people who are not seeking Him and to Christians out of fellowship with Him.  Grace is always the work of the Spirit in the hearts of mankind; first to create our new heart at salvation when we become a child of God and then to help us grow in grace as we walk with Him.  Grace is always the automatic work of the Spirit in our hearts that we have chosen to receive into our hearts by faith.  Faith comes by hearing the Word of God, but only if we accept the Word into our hearts.  When we receive God’s Word, Christ, into our hearts, Christ begins working to produce whatever action God intends and we call that work of the Spirit in our hearts the work of grace. 

Example:  Hebrews 4:2 states, “For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the Word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.”  They heard God’s Words of the gospel, but it did not profit them because they did not receive the Words into their hearts.   If they had mixed it in faith by receiving positively the Words into their hearts, the Living Words of the gospel would have produced the work of grace in their hearts for salvation.  So there is something we each must do to receive grace, we must first choose to receive God’s Word into our heart, for He will not force or put His Spirit into our hearts unless we personally choose to invite Him in and open our hearts to Him.  Grace is not dumped on people randomly.  Grace is always the automatic response of the Spirit working in our hearts when we receive God’s Word into our hearts by faith as Ephesians 2:8 states that we are saved by grace through faith.

Also, there was not grace in the Old Testament as the Psalmist states in Psalms 25:10, “All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep His covenant and His testimonies.”  Only Jesus had the work of grace in His heart before the day of Pentecost, for John 1:17 states, “For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ”  



View my video on Mercy, Grace and Charity.

Monday, September 26, 2011

FACT: God only controls people submitted to Him.

Mr Jack Graham,(not Billy Graham), on his TV program the weekend of 25 Sep 2011, stated, “There is nothing going on in your life, big or little, disease, or daily little things that God is not orchestrating. God is orchestrating your lives. He is in control.  He has you in control.  He will give you the desires of your heart.”  Then he added, “We have so much trouble because we are chasing things of the world.”  If God has us in control, how then are we chasing things of the world?  Which way is it?  Is God controlling us, or are we making the decisions and chasing the world?  It can’t be both?

FACT:  God is only controlling the things in people's lives who are submitted to Him according to His pure Word.  If we are trying to claim or stand on incorrect interpretation of His Word, He will not back it or us up.  Also, we allow satan to have control when we fail to forgive, 2 Corinthians 2:10-11.  And Jesus says His Father will not forgive us if we fail to forgive others, Matthew 6:15, "But if ye forgive not men their treespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses."  Therefore, when we are failing to forgive, envying others, holding anger (Eph 4:26-27), or we are rejecting any of God's Word, we are giving satan the advantage in our lives and he will bring in curses and as many other bad things as he can while we are out of fellowship with God.  That is why so many Christians are as sick as the non-Christians in our society, they have allowed satan to have the advantage in their lives by being luke warm and rejecting God's Word to them.  Look in Deuteronomy 28, there are no sicknesses in the blessing side, they are all listed as curses.  
So do not accept Mr Graham's statement that God is in control of your life if you are wracked in pain, or suffering in many other ways.  God does not treat us that way to teach or mold us as Mr Graham explains.  God is a loving God, and He even changed in 2 Kings 20 for King Hezekiah and added 15 years to his life.  God is not a respecter of persons, He respects His Word.  Psalms 138:2 states that He has exalted His Word above all His names (KJV).  God didn't respect King Hezekiah because he was a king, He respected him because he had been a Godly king.  God respects our acceptance and obedience to His pure Word -- so take the time to seek Him and make sure you have the correct interpretation of His Word and talk to Him about your problem.  God loves you as much as He loved Jesus!

Look at my two videos on "Prayer Changes Things - Prayer changes God and God changes things."  God bless you and have a great day.  

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Fact: God is not in control of this world!

On September 11, 2001 and last Sunday, 9/11, 2011, we heard the preachers or ministers of many different denominations interviewed by national TV hosts state how “God is in control” and then state something like from Isaiah 55:8-9 where God says, “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. (9) For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.”  This was to comfort us while accepting the foolish suffering of the murderous acts because if God knew it was to happen and He allowed it; therefore, He must have had some mysterious higher reasoning for allowing it that we in our simple minds would not be able to understand.  Our spiritual leaders in all denominations have let us, the common people, down by sitting on their intellectual pedestals and teaching such errors. 

First, the Bible says that God is not in control of the world.  The Scripture (KJV) states in 1 John 5:19, “And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.”  The NIV states, “…and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one.”  The Greek Interlinear states, “and the world whole in the evil one lies.”  How could that be since Jesus says in Matthew 28:18, “…All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth”?  The devil has no power or authority, but he receives control or advantage in situations when people choose to neglect and reject God’s Word, or when we ignorantly accept and obey incorrect teachings.   You can easily see how controlling the devil must be with most of the people in our country and around the world completely disregarding God’s Word.  When Christians disobey God’s Word, we give satan control of the circumstances in our lives too!  The Apostle Paul states in 2 Corinthians 2:10-11, “To whom ye forgive anything, I forgive also: for if I forgave anything, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Chirst; (11) Lest satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.”  He is saying that during the time we are failing to forgive someone, we are giving satan the advantage in our lives.  We will be out of fellowship with God because Jesus says in Matthew 6:15, “But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.”  So, when we choose not to forgive (or disobey other of God’s instructions to us like teaching, preaching, serving in positions of ministry that He has called us to) we are willfully putting our hand in the hand of satan and giving him control of the circumstances in our life until we turn and choose to forgive.  Many Scriptures show that through ignorance and compromise we give satan the (control) advantage in our lives.  Our Christian denominations are filled with errors: many teaching the opposite of others. This is not pleasing to God for He says in Ephesians 4:4, 13 that there is only one faith and that our spiritual leaders are supposed to be teaching and leading all of us into the unity of that one faith, not hundreds of “faiths.  Ephesians 4:26-27 states, “Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: (27) Neither give place to the devil.”  And Jesus says in, Matthew 5:25 that we should, “Agree with thine adversary quickly…”  We are opening up our lives to the control of the devil for as long as we fail to forgive or obey other of God’s Word to us personally. 

Secondly, Isaiah 55:8-9 was written for a society similar to ours today.  The Children of Israel were conducting their sacrifices, proclaiming fasts, going through their worship services, praying as they should just like our Christian society is doing and then they asked where is God and why did He let 9/11 happen?  Why isn’t He answering our holy prayers and showing respect unto all of our good works? God explains about their works in Isaiah 58:2-3, “Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God. (3) Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? Wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge?...”  They are saying, “Look how great we are, and God isn’t even paying attention to us!”  That is why God told them in Isaiah 55:8-9 that their ways were not His ways, and their thoughts were not His thoughts.  The He told them why He was not responding positively to their prayers in Isaiah 59:1-2 which is why He is not standing up for the Christian community of our nation too, “Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither His ear heavy, that it cannot hear: (2) But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid His face from you, that He will not hear.”

There are many individual Christians in our society which are getting personal answers to prayer, but the leaders in our Christian society as a whole are filled with errors of Scripture, intellectualism and pride in good works instead of seeking the true pure Word of God to bring unity in the body of Christ.  

My books and videos address many of the errors which need to be corrected in our Christian community.  Have a blessed day.       

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

FAITH - Deliverance from Fear

     Last night I was listening to a minister on Daystar TV who was telling about how so many people are bound by fear in so many areas.  Fear of relationships, flying, failure, storms, being alone, public speaking and so many others you would have to see the list yourself.  A phobia is defined in Webster’s New World College Dictionary as “an irrational, excessive, and persistent fear of some particular thing or situation”.  I did a “Google” search on phobia and did not take the time to count all of the listed types of phobias because there must have been over a thousand. If I had tried to count them, I am afraid I would have missed some. Many Christians I know seem to express fears as openly as those I know who do not claim to be Christians and who do not attend any church.  With all of the deliverance ministries around the country and other ministers teaching about overcoming fear, it seems that Christians should be some of the strongest emotional people in our society, yet thousands of ministers walk away from spiritual callings each year and others go to counseling.  The reason so many people who try to get set free of fear and are unable to be is because they do not know their enemy, fear; so their efforts are like a boxer who is shadow boxing.  The shadow boxer jumps around with good form, dodging and ducking back and forth making great swings, but he is not hitting anything because there is nothing to hit. 

First, we must determine just what fear is if we expect to fight it and win the victory.  Every minister that I have heard through the years talks about fear as if it is a gripping emotion, but it is not!  Fear is not an emotion and fear is not from the devil!  It can cause a lot of severe emotions in us, but fear is not an emotion.  That is very important because as Christians we have a physical body, a soul (mental and emotional) and Spirit.  So, if fear is not an emotion in our soul, what is it? 

The Apostle Paul tells us in 2 Timothy 1:7, “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”  Spirit of fear tells us that fear is a spirit, and it certainly is not God’s Spirit; therefore, it is the devil!  Fear is not an emotion, and fear is not from the devil; fear is the devil! Any time you get above being anxious to start becoming fearful, the devil is making his presence known to you to try to terrorize you so much that you will be unable to find God’s presence or will.  As long as he can keep you in terror, he will have the advantage in the circumstances and as Jesus says in John 10:10, “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” The devil will not stop tormenting you in these circumstances until he has your life, or until you turn with all your heart to the Lord for help, or God in His mercy intervenes. 

Now a couple questions that need to be answered are: 1) How is the devil able to attack us Christians in specific areas to terrorize us? and 2) How do we get free or escape from his attack?  The two answers are naturally tied together, but for clarity I will try to answer them separately.  First, when we violate or reject any of God’s Word or Will we are giving satan the advantage in our life.  The devil has no power, for all power and authority has been given to Jesus, Matthew 28:18.  But when we reject God’s Word, we give satan control in the circumstances.  For example, 2 Corinthians 2:10-11 states that we forgive others lest we give satan the advantage.  Ephesians 4:26-27 says to be angry and sin not……neither give place to the devil.  In Matthew 6:15, Jesus says that if we do not forgive others, then neither will our Heavenly Father forgive us.  Therefore, if you have rejected any of God’s Word or God’s Will for you to teach a class, to work with the youth or elderly, to preach fulltime, or whatever call from God you have rejected, you will not be in a very good position to fight the devil since you are out of fellowship with God.  You must make sure that your heart is right with God before you start trying to fight the devil because in James 4:7 the Scripture states, “Submit yourselves therefore to God.  Resist the devil, and he (the devil) will flee from you.”  So then, the first step is to submit your whole heart to God and His Will for you—even if it means making several lifestyle changes! You cannot fight off the devil’s attacks, only God can! 

Another consideration is your phobia or area the devil is attacking probably is one in which you do not know God’s promises or you may not be accepting the promises you know into your heart to faith.  Hebrews 4:1 states, “Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into His rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.”  If you must fear, fear missing God’s great and precious promises that He wants so much for us to receive and enjoy.  He even double sealed His promises to assure us that He will back them up if we will only do our part as stated in Hebrews 6:17-18, “Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise (you and I) the immutability of His counsel, confirmed it by an oath: That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us.”  God spoke the promises which should have been enough, but then He swore by an oath not to break the promises.  We must study God’s promises for health, prosperity, protection, our life mates, or for whatever your area of concern for which the devil is attacking you.  The reason it is so important for us to know and accept into our hearts God’s Word for these areas is because our doubt is what opens the door for the devil to attack us!  When we have a serious problem and we doubt that God will heal us, provide for us, or protect us, our doubt gives the devil the advantage in the situation because we do not have God’s provision available through faith to us because of our doubt.   Hebrews 6:12 states, “That ye be not slothful (lazy), but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.”  We must hear the promises from God and accept them into our hearts to faith for the promises to be activated for us in our problem.  If we do not know the promises or reject them, we will be giving satan the advantage.  Doubt opens us up to the killer—fear (satan).  Don’t wait until you have a serious problem, seek the Lord for His promises in the good times and the bad times will not be so bad.  Just knowing the words of God’s promises is not the final answer, we must trust God enough to receive the words of His promises into our heart to faith because Hebrews 11:6 states, “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 says in John 6:63 that His Words are Spirit; therefore, we must receive His Words (His Spirit the Living Word) into our hearts for us to receive the work of grace in us to bring peace in our hearts as He provides the victory and makes the devil flee. 

Solution:  Start seeking through the Scriptures for all of God’s promises for your areas of concern.  Pray and ask God to help you receive them to faith into your heart for the grace that will bring you peace in the storm.  Let any fear be a red flag to let you know the devil is present and immediately ask yourself, “What is it about God that I doubt?”   Submit to God by praying to get the doubt cleared up, resist the devil and he will flee, James 4:7. 

If you have time, look at my videos, “Our Faith Overcomes the World,” “Hearing God Speak,” “Faith Process,” and “Deliverance Prayer.”

Have a good day, God Bless You!

Friday, August 26, 2011

Fantasy - Generational Curses

Faith Church, Oklahoma City, with Pastor Terry Bates sold packages of CDs and tapes for $40+ to help you break generational curses.  Many ministries across the nation focus specifically on generational curses. 

An easy way to get rid of your "generational curses" is to read, Ezekiel Chapter 18 which explains that generational curses were done away with by God hundreds of years ago.  People claiming to have generational curses are just blaming their parents or other elders for their circumstances today.  These circumstances are not curses from God, but probably due to drunk or sinful elders like my dad.  But it certainly wasn't a curse on me from God.  Most of the people who have claimed to have generational curses and have managed to "break" the curses were able to receive some relief because they just got around to forgiving their elders for their bad childhood like the Word of God tells us to.  I suffered in my childhood because my dad was a drunk and was finally put in prison, but that was not a curse on me from God.  Read Ezekiel 18, the whole chapter tells us that each person must answer for his own sins.  In 2 Corinthians 2:10-11, the Scriptures tell us that we must forgive others lest we give satan the advantage in our lives and that is why so many people feel like they are cursed because of their elders, but it is because they are holding unforgiveness against their elders and giving satan the advantage in their lives.  And satan will bring all kind of hurt, harm, curses and destruction into a person's life that is failing to forgive others or willfully failing to obey any other of God's Word.   Therefore, when they get around to finally forgiving their elders there is such relief by kicking satan out that they think they have broken a generational curse when in fact they just forgave like they should have in the first place. 

Friday, August 19, 2011

Fiction

On Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) owned by Paul and Jan Crouch, Pastor Brian Houston of Hillsong.Tv stated that all men have a measure of faith, just place your faith in Jesus.  Romans 12:3 is the Scripture which ministers use to teach that all  people have faith, and the Apostle Paul states, "For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith."  Paul is teaching about the gifts of the Spirit and is addressing his message to Christians in Romans 12, and all Christians do have a measure of faith, but only Christians.  Ephesians 2:8 states, "For by grace are ye saved through faith:.."  We receive the grace for salvation through our obedience to God's Words to faith.
Also, God speaks the word "faith" the first time it is used in the Bible, when He states in Deuteronomy32:20, "And He said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very forward generation, children in whom is no faith."  God was talking about the Children of Israel who had become so evil they were involved in devil worship and disobedience.  Jesus says in Mark 4:40 after calming the storm on the sea, "Why are ye so fearful? How is it that ye have no faith."  The Apostle Paul states in 2 Thessalonians 3:2, "And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all men have not faith."  God says that all people do not have faith; Jesus say that even good people sometimes do not have faith; and the Apostle  Paul states that wicked and evil men do not have faith.  Therefore, it should be clear that the Apostle Paul was talking only about Christians in the gift of the Spirit Chapter 12 in Romans.
The Apostle Paul states in Romans 10:17, "So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God."  But it is not automatically faith just because we hear God's Word, for if we reject what we hear it is unbelief, only if we accept God's Word does it become faith to us.  Psalms 119:9 states, "Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word."  We only receive faith if we accept God's Word.  Hebrews 4:2 states that even the gospel does not profit us when we hear it unless we mix it in faith or accept it. Knowing God's Will or Word and rejecting it is unbelief as shown in Hebrews 3:12-19.  The Children of Israel all knew they were leaving slavery to go to their promised land.  They did not trust that God would protect them when they arrived at the Jordan River because ten spies told them there were giants on the other side.  Their lack of trust in God caused them to reject God's Will and they refused to cross over the Jordan.  Hebrews 3:12 states, "Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God."  And the Word of God to us is the Living God, not just a message, text, letter or email.  Hebrews 3:19 continues, "So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief."
All people do not have a measure of faith, ONLY those who have heard God's Word and accepted or received it into their hearts receive the Spirit and faith of God's Word. 

The seriousness of teaching the error "that all people have faith" is that many people can attend church and hear and know a lot of God's Word in their head without receiving it into their hearts.  I lived like that for over 20 years.  I think we have a lot of people, including preachers, in churches today that have not mixed the Gospel with faith. 

For more about FAITH look at my videos on faith. 
God Bless You