by CFAITH Staff | Feb 5, 2025 | Articles, Faith, Featured Articles, Partner Letter
Do your dreams fall within the realm of logical possibility or do they only seem credible if their probability of fulfillment is definable by human understanding? Alternatively, do your dreams require the element of the miraculous in order to be realized?
In Pastor Mac’s current teaching series at Living Word, The Impossible Dream, he encouraged us to dream with God’s possibilities in mind, not simply our own. He stated, “If you dream within the limits of your own understanding, you leave God out, and He’ll not be bringing the miraculous to bear in the pursuit of that dream.”
It’s easy to rely on what we know, but God wants us to learn to trust in Him. As Proverbs 3:5 says, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding.”
Pastor Mac noted, “I have a tendency to make the things that I see can work more credible in my thinking and in my approach. I look for ways to do something that I feel my talent or my ability has a chance of accomplishing.” However, he went on to explain that is a dangerous way to dream because it leaves God out of it. God wants to partner with us in the pursuit of our dreams. We can do things naturally. God adds the “super” to our natural.
Now, allowing God to do supernatural things doesn’t mean we can delegate the responsibility for our dreams to Him and say, “Lord, I’m going to believe You will do this.” Our responsibility is to do everything we can do in the natural to promote God’s purpose. There are things we do in the natural to move toward that dream, and then we trust Him to add the miraculous, or supernatural, as needed when we come to a place that we can’t negotiate without Him.
That process is illuminated in Philippians 3:14: “I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.”
Every child of God has a high calling God has given to them. He has prepared things for each one of us that Paul tells us eye hasn’t seen and ear hasn’t heard before. (See 1 Corinthians 2:9.) God has a magnificent plan for our lives, and we begin to move toward that plan through deliberately dreaming about where God wants to take you in life.
If you want to know more about God’s impossible dream for your life, you can watch Pastor’s messages by clicking the titles below.
Watch The Impossible Dream or The Impossible Dream 2, Fasting & Prayer by Mac Hammond.
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by CFAITH Staff | Oct 1, 2024 | Articles, Faith, Partner Letter
A few months ago, guest minister Terri Savelle Foy preached the message, Ask Big, at Living Word. The message emphasized the Scripture that says, Ask and it will be given to you! She reminded us that we can take the limits off God, release our faith, and ask big. As we do, new blessings and breakthroughs will come our way!
I want to share a testimony about this! My 21-year-old daughter had spent more than a year training for her second Ironman race. Her goal was to earn a spot for the world championship in Kona, HI. When race day came, it appeared that there were a lot more competing in her age group, which was unlike the first time she had competed in the Ironman. The girls competing in 18–24 had not only tripled, but they were very competitive.
During the race, she was 15 out of 19 in her age group, 189 out of 265 women, and 929 overall with men and women combined.The outcome was not looking good for her to get a spot for the world championship. We changed our focus to her finishing the 140.6 mile race (2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike, and 26 mile run) to be completed in 17 hours or less. We wanted her to finish strong and healthy.
She did finish strong and healthy! She finished in 15:13:09! She beat her previous time by 41 minutes and 27 seconds. We were happy.
The next day, there was a finishers’ breakfast. They announced each person who earned a spot at the world championship. The rules were that the people who wanted their spot had to be present at the breakfast. Each person had the option to pass and then it went to the next fastest time. We waited through 1,100 men to be placed in 110 spots to go on to France. We waited through all the women’s groups until they finally announced the 18–24 women age group was last. Only 10% of the women go to the world championship in Kona, HI. Her age group had earned two spots. Number one in her age group was not present. Number two accepted. They started going down the line and the announcer got tired of no one being present. He asked for anyone in that age group (18–24) to come to the front and check their times. My daughter and another woman went to the front. They announced my daughter’s name to go on to Kona, HI. We cheered and screamed so loud for her. She had been praying, training, and writing down her vision for over a year. When she heard Terri Savelle Foy preach the message Ask Big, it became even more clear what she wanted to accomplish.
When she was paying for the trip before we left the breakfast, she waved me over. She said, “I don’t think I have earned this. I think maybe I should pass and not go.”
I immediately reminded her that she fully earned this. She had not only done the work and put in the effort to finish the race and patiently attend the finishers’ breakfast, but she had also put in the work of prayer!
You see, the Devil will try to twist things for us and tell us we don’t deserve them. He will tell us that we are not good enough or that other people should get this, but not you. We have to be watching for God to make things happen and give us favor, not in our own strength, but in His. I am not sure that anyone who was 15 out of 19 in their age group ever went on to the world championships before, but my daughter had “asked big” and God was on her side.
Ask, and the gift is yours. Seek, and you’ll discover. Knock, and the door will be opened for you. For every persistent one will get what he aks for. Every persistent seeker will discover what he longs for. And everyone who knocks persistently will one day find an open door.
Matthew 7:7-8 TPT
There are thirty-three scriptures in the Bible where God says to ask Him for things.
If ye abide in me and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
John 15:7 JUB
Stop asking for things that you think are possible. Ask for something that only God can do!
Terri Savelle Foy gave five ways you can show God that you believe.
- Write the vision.
- Speak to the dream.
- Take action toward the dream.
- Sow seed for your dream.
- Praise God before the dream manifests.
I encourage you to ask God for something big in your life today!
Speaking of something big, we’re excited about what God is doing at Mac Hammond Ministries to plant 50 global churches in five years. Here’s a highlight video giving an update on all the churches already planted and those in the works. Mission Update | Global Church Plants.
by Chuck Kennedy | Aug 16, 2024 | Articles, Christian Living
Many see recent global developments as a fulfillment of biblical prophecies, underscoring belief in the soon return of the Lord. Central banks worldwide are moving toward digital currencies, with control mechanisms suggesting future requirements for digital IDs or a mark embedded in our bodies for transactions. This aligns with predictions of economic control found in Revelation in the scripture. The groundwork is being laid now.
Rev 13:16 “And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:”
Rev 13:17 “And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.”
Technological advancements such as quantum dot tattoos, nanotechnology, and the widespread implementation of gene-altering mRNA vaccines, once mandated on a global scale, highlight a trend toward unprecedented control over individual biology and identity. This is also a way of implementing the mark prophesied in Revelation. Only God could have known how this gigantic undertaking could actually be possible; John would not have known this in his natural mind.
In geopolitical arenas, Israel remains a focal point with escalating tensions and conflicts, pointing to wars and rumors of wars. Meanwhile, a stark moral decline is evident. Society is increasingly the object of the militant homosexual, transgender community to force acceptance of their abominable sexual perversions that seem to surpass the sins of Sodom and Gomorrah, loudly proclaiming dire biblical warnings that imminent judgment is growing near.
These signs prompt a call for readiness: the Lord is coming soon. Are you prepared?
Luke 21:28 “And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.”
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by CFAITH Staff | Jul 29, 2024 | Articles, Partner Letter, Victory
Guest Minister James Tan joined together with Pastor Jim Hammond to tag team preach the message, Spiritual Warfare and the Imagination. Their message was based on 2nd Corinthians 10:3–5, “For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.” We are in a spiritual war that we need to take seriously. According to what Paul wrote, our weapons are not carnal. They are mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds. Notice strongholds is plural.
How does that warfare begin? It begins in your mind.
All people have to deal with multiple strongholds that are set up in their bodies or souls throughout their lives. Every stronghold starts with imaginations.
When you have imaginations that go against the Word and what God wants you to think, you say, “Okay, I should not go with that thought. I’m not going to keep thinking about that thought.” That is how you bring every thought captive to the obedience of Christ.
Remember, the enemy is going to give you ideas and imaginations that go against the Lord. If you think about whatever comes into your mind, you are letting a stronghold be built. Take those imaginations captive and cast them down to the obedience of Christ.
Jesus was obedient in the way that He became our sin so that we might become the righteousness of God in Jesus Christ. His sacrifice and resurrection enabled us to stand before God without any guilt or inferiority.
A lot of the imaginations and strongholds we deal with are from the past. That’s a stronghold from something that’s happened. Bring it to the obedience of Christ. Capture that thought and make it bow to the righteousness in God.
When a negative thought comes to you, just say, “I’m the righteousness of God in Jesus Christ!”
by Gloria Copeland | Feb 23, 2024 | Articles, Christian Living
And the Lord said, “Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season?” (Luke 12:42)
We often praise God for His faithfulness. We’re thankful that we can always count on Him to be there for us. But, we rarely consider the fact that He needs us to be faithful, too.
It’s true. God needs people He can count on. He needs faithful and wise stewards He can trust over His household. In this final hour, He needs faithful believers to team up with, so He can manifest Himself in the earth more than ever before.
“Oh Gloria, God doesn’t need me!”
Yes, He does. Ever since the Creation, when He gave man dominion over the earth, He’s needed people to work with Him to get His will done here. You can see that all through the Bible. When the children of Israel were in bondage in Egypt and He wanted to lead them out, He teamed up with a man, Moses, to get the job done. Moses’ responsibility was to stretch out his hand in the earth and command the will of God to be done.
Why did He choose Moses? Because He needed someone who was faithful and would dare to act on His Word. He needed someone He could count on, and He knew Moses was that kind of man.
Psalm 103:7 says, “He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel.” If Moses hadn’t been faithful to know God’s ways, the children of Israel would never have seen God’s acts!
God needs you just as He needed Moses. He needs you to be faithful and alert to spiritual things. He needs you to be someone He can trust to know His Word and be obedient to it. He needs you to be a steward who will stretch out his hand like Moses did so that He can perform signs and wonders before the people.
Will you be faithful? It’s a decision you have to make. No one can do it for you. Right now, commit yourself to be that wise and faithful servant. Say in your heart and with your mouth, “God, You can count on me.”
Scripture Reading: Psalm 105:23-45
Source: From Faith to Faith Devotional by Kenneth and Gloria Copeland
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Eagle Mountain International Church, Inc.
aka: Kenneth Copeland Ministries
