Faith Dominates Time The Apostle Peter gives us a glance of heaven and earth concerning time. He states that a day is as a thousand years and a thousand years is a day with the Lord. God has given every man the measure of faith to close the gap, to make a thousand years as one day. If evangelism continues at its present rate Jesus cannot return for centuries. But praise God there are men and women that God is raising up that are being taught how to close the gap with their faith. The days of toiling to get people into the kingdom of God are over. We now stand at the edge of a great harvest. We do not have to wait any longer. The fields are white to harvest now. Let’s look a John 4:34-38. John 4:34-38, Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. 35 Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. 36 And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. 37 And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth. I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours. We are the ones that are to finish the work of Jesus. The toil of labor is over. We are now to gather the harvest. Other men labored for us to come in at the appointed time and gather God’s harvest. The sower and the reaper are in the fields together, rejoicing over eternal life. Faith has closed the gap. Harvest comes as soon as the seed is sown. If the body of Christ believes this we need to get busy building more barns and enlarge our tent for the harvest as the prophet Isaiah stated. We are going to need cities to house God’s harvest as in the days of Joseph. Isaiah 54:1-3, Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD. 2 Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes; 3 For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited. Did you see what Isaiah said? Babies are going to be born so fast into the kingdom of God that there will be no travailing time. The Gentiles are coming in and the desolate cities will be inhabited. This sounds like a massive crowd of people that has not been seen before. This sounds like the great harvest to me. The time of toiling to get people into the kingdom of God is over. We are now in the rejoicing time. "Sing, O barren…break forth into singing and cry aloud". The Bible says that time is short and that God will redeem the time. Lets look at a prophesy about God redeeming the time. Joel 2: 23-26, Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month. 24 And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil. 25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you. 26 And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed. God will change things so fast for you that it will make your head swim if you will get time out of the way. How do you get time out of the way? You get in faith. The Bible does not say where Lazarus’ spirit was when Jesus called him back, but he immediately came forth out of the tomb still bound in grave clothes. It happened instantly. Jesus was showing us that time cannot dominate faith. Remember the woman with the issue of blood. Her blood flow dried up instantly. Remember the miracles of the loaves and fish. As long as there was a demand placed on provision it was instantly present. Time could not stop faith then and it cannot stop it now. What about the impotent man at Lystra, who had never walked, when Paul perceived that he had faith to be healed said with a loud voice, Stand upright on your feet. And He leaped and walked. Jesus told us plainly in Mark Chapter 4, how faith comes. We are to take heed what we hear, for what we hear will be measured to us. He that hears shall more be given. More what? More faith! He goes on to explain how faith comes. As a man casts seed into the ground, the ground brings froth fruit of itself, first the blade, then the ear and then the full corn in the ear. Mark 4:29 But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come. Faith cometh by hearing the word of God. When faith arrives in the heart, the harvest comes immediately. We think we are in faith but actually we are laboring to enter into faith. Faith always has the answer with it. Faith connects with God. The results are instant. Luke 13:13 And he laid his hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God. Luke 18:43 And immediately he received his sight, and followed him, glorifying God: and all the people, when they saw it, gave praise unto God. Luke 4:39 And he stood over her, and rebuked the fever; and it left her: and immediately she arose and ministered unto them. Luke 5:13 And he put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will: be thou clean. And immediately the leprosy departed from him. Luke 6:10 And looking round about upon them all, he said unto the man, Stretch forth thy hand. And he did so: and his hand was restored whole as the other. Jesus showed us how faith works. It brings immediate results. We must labor to enter into the rest of faith. When we get there things happen immediately. We must retrain our thinking from, we must patiently wait for faith to manifest to faith brings instant results. The Bible says that we must contend for faith. The enemy does not want us to keep faith active in our hearts. He knows its power but he does not want us to know its power. The devil saw faith instantly raise Jesus from the dead and destroy his works forever. Any person that the devil can keep in darkness to the power of faith, he can hold him captive. When the devil keeps people’s eyes and ears from the word of God he wins. The devil believes Proverbs 4:20-23. He does not want man to believe it. My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. 21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. 22 For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. 23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. The word of God will cause faith to come into people’s heart so they can have every need met instantly today, just as the word of God walking did in Jesus’ days on earth. Let’s look at Mark 11:22-24. And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God. 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. 24 Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. We see clearly that doubt and belief are opposites. They oppose each other. There is nothing in the above scripture that tells us that we must wait for the answer. We read that into this passage ourselves. Jesus did not have to wait on the results of His words spoken. Earlier in Mark Chapter 11 when he cursed the fig tree, the roots died instantly when he spoke
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