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JERRY: Welcome to our broadcast today. I'm Jerry Savelle. Thank
you for joining with me. I want to encourage you to just relax
for the next few moments and hear the Word of God because,
remember, faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God.
You know, if you're down today, if you're depressed, if you're
not having a great day, well, it's not over yet. I believe God
is going to do something through this broadcast that's going to
lift you up and encourage you. You know, the book of Acts says
that the Word of God is able to build you up. That's what I'm
believing for, that your faith is going to be built up today
and that you're going to dare to believe God no matter how
impossible your situation may seem because God is the God who
specializes in doing what men say is impossible. Praise God.
Let me read a scripture to you very quickly, Psalm 67 verses
five and six, "Let the people praise thee, O God. Let all the
people praise thee. Then shall the earth yield her increase and
God, even our God, shall bless us." Notice when you praise God
for his goodness, when you praise God for his willingness
to step into your life and do good things, then God says that
immediately after you give praise, something happens. It
happens in the spirit realm first. Then, if you'll stay in
faith, it will manifest in the natural. That is a manifestation
of God's goodness. That's what we're talking about on the
broadcast today. I'm going to take you in to the Heritage of
Faith Christian Center service where I was teaching on the
goodness of God. I want to encourage you to pay very close
attention because I believe God's going to say
something through me that's going to
inspire your faith today. Watch now.
JERRY: Once again, let's look at Psalm 21 and the verse that says
in verse three, "For thou preventest him with the
blessings of goodness." I want you to start thinking in terms
of God's goodness as a blessing. Amen. Prevent here we've already
said means to precede. David is telling us that the goodness of
God goes before him and precedes him, wherever her goes, whatever
he does, amen, just waiting to manifest. Now, think that way
when you're going through adversity. Most people just
focus on the adversity. They just focus on what they're going
through right at the moment. They don't see beyond that. Does
the Bible teach us when we live by faith that we're not moved by
what we see? We walk by faith and not by sight. That means
you've got to look beyond the circumstance. You've got to look
beyond the adversity. If you look beyond that, the Bible is
telling us here that God has already prearranged a blessing
of goodness that is just waiting for you. Amen. Carolyn and I
experienced this just almost every day in some way, the
blessing of goodness. Hallelujah. I expect it
everywhere I go. I don't carry a sign around, "I'm a preacher.
Would you like to bless me?" I just expect it because the Bible
tells me to. It's part of my covenant right to expect good
things from God every day in my life. Now, that's not to say
some bad things don't happen. From time to time, they do.
Challenges come to me just like they do to you, but I'm not
going to focus on the challenge. I'm not going to focus on the
adversity. I'm going to look beyond that and say, "God, I
don't know how long it's going to take for this to change, but
I got my eyes on you and not on this. I know beyond this there
is a blessing of goodness. Something good is going to
happen to me on the other side of this. Hallelujah." Can you
say amen? I want to challenge you to begin to expect that this
year, perhaps more so than you ever have before. Amen. Psalm
27, turn there with me for a moment and look at verse 13 and
14. "I had fainted," or I would have fainted, "unless I had
believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the
living." Notice he said, "I would have fainted." There's
absolutely no question about it. I would fainted, I would have
become weary, I would have given up if I had not believed that I
would see the goodness of the Lord on the other side of this
adversity. Amen? If you don't believe that you're going to see
the goodness of God on the other side of this adversity, you will
faint, you will grow weary, you will give up, you will do the
very opposite of what he said in verse 14, wait on God. You won't
be willing to wait. If you believe, based on what we see in
the Word of God, not just on what Brother Jerry's saying or
Brother Justin's saying or any other brother is saying, but
based on what the Word of God says, that the goodness of the
Lord is waiting for you. David said it, "Thou preventest me
with the blessings of goodness." In other words, they're already
preceding me. They're waiting for me. What do you suppose you
forfeit when you give up? What do you suppose you could have
had if you stood your ground? Is that motivating to you? That's
one of the primary reasons why I am not going to quit. I don't
want to miss out on anything good. Hallelujah. I know
something good is waiting for me, but I got to make up my mind
that fainting and growing weary and giving up is not an option.
Amen. Can you say amen? He said, "I would have fainted, unless I
had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the
living. Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall
strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord." That tells me
that if I make the decision, you know, a lot of times I like to
say it out loud. I can do it in my heart. A lot of times, I want
the Lord to know. He knows the thoughts of my heart, the intent
of my heart, but a lot of times I just want to say it where he
can hear it. Lord, I am not giving up. I am not growing
weary. I am not fainting. The Bible says that if I'm willing
to wait on him, then he will strengthen me. Amen. That means
that he will energize me so that I can continue to stand, so that
I won't grow weary, so that I won't faint. Amen. Determining
that you're going to wait on the Lord no matter how long it
takes, and here, again, I believe God is accelerating
things. There's some things going to come to pass in your
life that look like they'd never come to pass last year, but God
is going to cause them to come to pass sooner than you thought
this year. Hallelujah. Amen. Wouldn't you
be willing to wait? Look at somebody and
say I'm waiting. CONGREGATION: I'm waiting. JERRY: I don't know
what you plan to do, but I'm waiting. CONGREGATION: I'm
waiting. JERRY: I don't want to miss out on anything good. Can
you say amen? CONGREGATION: Amen. JERRY: Praise God. Amen.
Don't ever give up. The goodness of God is just on the other side
of every adversity. Always remember this. It is not God
withholding. It is not God keeping you from experiencing
him. It's your adversary the devil. But if you stay in faith,
then he's not going to be able to keep you from laying hold
upon the goodness that God has already prearranged for you. So
notice once again, David said that he would have fainted if he
had not believed. Here fainted means to begin to waver. The
Bible tells us in the book of James, chapter 1, verses 6 and
7, "For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea, driven with
the wind and tossed, for let not that man think that he shall
receive anything from the Lord." The person that wavers cannot
expect to receive anything from God. Now I don't believe it's
God being mean, but God's not going to violate his own Word. I
mean if God was just going to bless everybody that wavers,
then why even print the Bible? Why even teach on faith? If he
just going to do it, regardless of your attitude or the
lifestyle or how you conduct yourself in adversity, if he
just going to do it anyway, then why did he say the just shall
live by faith? CONGREGATION: That's right. JERRY: He's not
going to violate his own Word, amen. CONGREGATION: Amen. JERRY:
You don't do your children that way. CONGREGATION: That's right.
JERRY: You expect certain things, and if they don't do it,
you going to bless them anyway? And just keep on blessing them
anyway? Well, you might a time or two but you know, after a
while, you realize you've made a big mistake by not keeping your
word to them. They going to just keep on doing things that are
not right and think they can get away with it. Well, it's not
that God's mean. The people that he loves, he chastens. Amen?
CONGREGATION: That's right. Amen. JERRY: Amen. It's not God
withholding from us. It's not God keeping good things from us.
God is good and he doeth good. Get that down in your spirit.
God is good, and he doeth good. But once again,
our responsibility is to stay in faith. Keep our eyes on him, and
stay in faith. Keep telling yourself, something good is on
the other side of this adversity. Say it with me.
Something good. CONGREGATION: Something good. JERRY: Wave and
point somewhere out there. Say something good. CONGREGATION:
Something good. JERRY: Is on the other side. CONGREGATION: Is on
the other side. JERRY: Of this adversity. CONGREGATION: Of this
adversity. JERRY: And I'm not going to quit. CONGREGATION: And
I'm not going to quit. JERRY: Can you say amen? CONGREGATION:
Amen. JERRY: Hallelujah. Hebrews chapter 10, verse 35, "Cast not
away your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward." The
Message translation says, "So don't throw it all away now."
You need to stick it out so you'll be there for the promise
completion. Don't throw it all away now. I can't, I can't
figure out people that have stood for weeks and even months
and then finally get to the place where they quit. Look at
all that wasted energy. No, why don't you determine you're going
to wait for the promised completion? What is the promised
completion? Goodness shows up. That's what he's promised.
Goodness is on the other side of this. Wait for the promised
completion, amen. God's not going to let you fail. He's not
going to allow the adversary to defeat you. If you stay in faith
and keep your eyes on him. Can you say amen? CONGREGATION:
Amen. JERRY: Now Psalm 107 says, and I want to say this, before I
give you that verse. One of the ways that you stay in faith,
that the Bible teaches, is to stay in praise and worship, to
keep offering God thanksgiving and praise. Psalm 107 verse 1
says, "O Give thanks unto the Lord for he is good and his
mercy endureth forever." O give thanks unto the Lord for he is
good. Now this is not referring to just after he does something.
You should be praising him after he does something, but it's also
referring to praising him before you see it happen. Isn't he good
all the time? Not just when he does something good. He's good
all the time. God is good, and he doeth good. So he's
encouraging us to praise God when it happens and praise God
while you're waiting for it to happen, and then praise him
again after that happens, and then praise him again while
you're waiting for the next thing to happen, and praise him
when it does and then start the cycle all over again. Just never
stop praising God. Never stop praising God. For what? His
goodness. Verse 8 says, "Oh that men would praise the Lord for
his goodness and for his wonderful works to the children
of men." So what are we to praise God for? Because he's
good and for his goodness. Praise God that he's good and
praise God for his goodness. That's one of the ways you stay
in faith, amen. Stay in faith. Not only for the good things
that God's already done. Praise God, one of the greatest
expressions of faith is when you can praise God while you're
waiting for something good to happen. Amen. A number of years
ago, I was in Liberty, Texas, and I had a supernatural
visitation of the Lord, 1992, in my hotel room. In that
visitation, the Lord said, "Most of my people," or he said, "My
people know me as Savior. Many of them know me as baptizer in
the Holy Spirit. Some of them know me as healer. Some of them
know me as deliver," he said, "But they don't all know me of
the God of the breakthrough. If they did, then they wouldn't be
so quick to give up." He said, "Tell them that the God of the
breakthrough wants to visit their house." That night I went
over to that church and preached that, and boy did we ever have a
Holy Ghost meeting. Then the Lord instructed me to preach on
the God of the breakthrough will visit your house, everywhere I
went during that year. I wrote a book about it, a series of
messages on it, and it's still touching lives, all over the
world. But then he also said this in that visitation. He
said, "Tell them that the depth of their praise will determine
the magnitude of their breakthrough." The depth of
their praise will determine the magnitude of their breakthrough.
In other words, just how big a breakthrough do you need? Just
how big a breakthrough do you need? The depth of your praise
will determine the magnitude of your breakthrough. Hallelujah.
You know, sometimes, we call ourselves praising God with
hallelujah, hallelujah, amen. There wasn't a whole lot of
depth to that. Glory, glory. I think a lot of times the reason
being is because they come to church with more on their mind,
their problem, than the answer to the problem. Amen. So the
depth of your praise, and where it really counts is not in
church. At home. It counts in here but it counts more at home.
Does anybody in your family know you're a praiser? Has anybody in
your family every heard you praise God? Has your wife ever
said, "Children, daddy's in there, praising God." And then
sometimes they just ... I like to walk when I'm praying, and I
just walk in that room, all around that room. Walk as far as
I could go, make a circle and I'm just walking, and the girls
would be right behind me, just praying in tongues. You know,
look like an old hen with some chicks, you know.
But they we're real quiet. Amen. But they could see
the results from it. After the service they'd say, when we'd
got back to the room, "Daddy, let us feel your hands. They're
always hot after you preach and pray for people." They could see
the results of it. So, has anybody else in your family,
besides you, know you're a praiser? The depth of your
praise will determine the magnitude of your breakthrough.
Just ask yourself how big a breakthrough do I need? Well,
then, just go for it. Praise God! Amen. Go for it! Go for
praising God and don't be concerned about what anybody
else thinks. It's your breakthrough, not theirs. It's
your breakthrough. Amen. So, praising ... the magnitude of
the depth of your praise will determine the magnitude of your
breakthrough. Can you say, "Amen." To refuse to offer
thanksgiving and praise in advance is to open the door to
discouragement, and eventually, you'll begin to waver in your
faith. Amen. And the Bible says, "The person that wavers can't
expect to receive anything from God." Psalm 67, go there with
me, real quick. Psalm 67, verse 3, "Let the people praise Thee,
O God. Let all the people praise Thee. Then ... " Look in verse
6, the first word, "Then, shall the earth yield her increase,
and God, even our own God, shall bless us. God shall bless us,
and all the ends of the earth shall fear and reverence Him."
So notice the "praise" precedes the "then." Notice nothing
happens until after praise. Did you see that? "Let the people
praise Thee, O God. Let all the people praise Thee ... " Then,
here's what they can expect - supernatural increase.
Breakthrough. Hallelujah! I've heard people say, "Well, Brother
Jerry, I have a praise in my heart, but it just won't come
out my mouth." Now, you've done taken up lying, because the
Bible says, "Out of the abundance of the heart, the
mouth speaks." If you've got any praise in your heart, you're not
having a problem with it coming out. You're having a problem
shutting it off sometimes. Amen. "Let all the people praise
Thee." Then let all the people in Heritage of Faith Church
praise Thee. Then their breakthrough will happen. Then
their increase will happen. Then, praise God, what they've
been believing for will manifest. Hallelujah! Let all
the people at Heritage of Faith, and let all the people watching
this broadcast praise the Lord, and then something major will
take place. Hallelujah! Come on, give Him your best shout this
morning. Glory to God! Glory to God! Amen. Be seated again for a
moment. Psalm 23, verse 6, you know it. You learned it as a kid
in Sunday School. "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow
me all the days of my life." Now notice in Psalm 21 it precedes
us. Now Psalm 23 says, "And it follows us." It's waiting for me
and it's following me. Hallelujah! So the goodness of
God is surrounding us. Hallelujah! All we have to do is
our part. God's already done His part. He's got
the goodness waiting for us. Can you say Amen.
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then also three CDs, Making Room For His Glory. Once again, the
glory of God is the manifestation of His presence,
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so that you can find out about other resources. You can find
out about our itinerary. We might be coming into your area,
and if so, I'd love to have you come to the meeting; and, if
possible, come up and say, "Hello," to me. We would love to
see you there. And then also, if you'd like to be a partner with
the ministry, there's information on the website about
how to become a partner. And if you have prayer requests, we
love joining our faith with you and believing God for impossible
looking situations. Nothing is impossible with our God. God
appeared to Abraham one time and said that your wife, Sarah, is
going to have a child. And if you remember the story, it was
impossible for her to give birth. It was impossible for her
to conceive. Her womb was dead. When she heard that, she
actually laughed. And God said to her, "Why did you laugh?" And
she reminded Him that it's impossible for me to conceive.
And He said, "Nothing is impossible, or nothing is too
hard for the Lord." I want you to remember that. Nothing is too
hard for the Lord. And then He appeared to her and said, "And
at this time next year, you will have this baby that I have
promised you." And that child was Isaac, and praise God. What
a great story Isaac is in the Bible. So, God is the God who
does impossible things. Don't you dare give up. Don't you dare
give up on God, don't you dare give up on His Word; because God
will come through for you. I've seen it happen time and time
again, not only in my life, but in the lives of people all over
the world. Here's a testimony: I was in Palm Coast, Florida
recently. Richard Roberts, actually, was with me; and we
were both preaching in that conference. Every night we'd
pray for people. One night the Spirit of God said to me that
someone here who's had an accident, and it caused great
pain in your neck that has never been healed or mended properly
... God wants to heal you tonight. And so there were
several people that came up, but one lady in particular shared
with me after the service. She said, "I had a car accident 15
years ago." She said, "Actually, there was a car that came up
behind us. He lost his brakes, and he slammed into the back of
our car, and it injured my neck." And she said, "I have
been in pain for 15 years. Going to the doctor, doing everything
that they knew to do, and it had not gotten any better at all.
But tonight when you laid hands on me, I sensed the power of God
come into my body, and into my neck." And she said, "Look at
this." And she began to move her neck around. I'm telling you,
she was totally set free. So, God specializes in what men say
is impossible. In what even physicians say is impossible.
God specializes in the impossible. So, I want to
encourage you, don't ever give up on God, don't ever give up on
His Word. God is for you, God loves you, and He wants you
well. He wants you blessed. And He wants you highly favored.
Thank you for joining me today. Join me again next week. And
until then remember: your faith will overcome the world.
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