We must live by faith. It’s a must in order to be justified in the eyes of God. For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith (Romans 1:17). You must stop living in your feelings. I deal with many people who live more in their feelings than they ever live by faith; and, Children of God, that will not do!

Some of you struggle and struggle trying to get something from God through feelings. You pray through feelings, fast through feelings, think through feelings, and cry through your feelings; it won’t work. Jesus was a man of faith from Heaven, but He also was a man of great sorrow. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not (Isaiah 53:3).

The Bible says that Jesus was acquainted with grief, but He wasn’t directed by His feelings. Do you think Jesus felt like going through all He did when He was here on Earth? The Jews tried to kill Him again and again before they finally crucified Him at Calvary. Do you think He felt good when all the false accusations were brought against Him? Do you think He felt good when He was going to Golgotha to die for you and me? No, He did it through faith. By faith Jesus went to Calvary and was obedient even unto the death of the Cross. And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross (Philippians 2:8).

Jesus was on a divine mission just as each child of God today is on a divine mission, and the Lord gives us the faith we need to carry it out. Before you got saved, you had human faith; but you didn’t have divine faith to go with it. The Bible says, God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith (Romans 12:3), divine faith; and that faith is to be used. The Bible tells us that without faith it is impossible to please him; for he that cometh to God must believe that he [God] is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him (Hebrews 11:6). You can’t please God or obey Him by walking in your feelings, and you can’t pray right or think right either. I tell people that it won’t work, but some will turn away and go right on living in their feelings.

When I got saved, I immediately started living by faith, praying through faith, and fasting through faith. I don’t fast through feelings, and I don’t wait to pray until I feel like it. Don’t wait to praise God until you feel like it; praise Him because He is worthy. The Bible says He is worthy, and you should count Him worthy, too. I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised (Psalm 18:3).

Fast through Faith

You can’t have divine faith and use it without fasting. You must fast because you are called to fast. The Lord said His disciples would fast after He went back to Heaven, and they did. And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast (Matthew 9:15). Jesus said this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting (Matthew 17:21). Now, if a person is too sick and afflicted to fast, or they have to take certain medications with food, they can let the Lord know that they will fast when He heals them. They can let Him know that they want to use His mantle of power. That mantle is a faith mantle, and the Word of God is faith.

Faith Is in the Word

Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God (Matthew 4:4). We live through the Word and the power of the Word, yet many Christians today don’t really know what faith is. Faith is so simple that many people stumble over it or circle around it, but they won’t use it. They make faith complicated, but faith is just simply accepting what God has said in His Holy Book. It’s all there, so start acting like God said it.

Jesus said, Father, you always hear me. And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me (John 11:42). Do you pray like that through faith? I do; and I tell Him, Lord, you always hear me.

I know God hears every word I speak. He said His ears are open to the cry of the righteous, and I know I’m righteous. The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry (Psalm 34:15).

I know there’s no sin in my heart or my life, and I don’t intend to ever commit one. Jesus is mine, and I am His. I know I’m separated from the world, and I know that I have a direct line to the throne; the Bible teaches it. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need (Hebrews 4:16). The Lord hears us when we pray if we’re righteous, and the righteous will live by faith. If you’re not living by faith, you’re not living the abundant life.

Faith Brings New Life

Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh (Hebrews 10:19,20). Jesus came and brought a brand-new living way, and it’s a livable way. In other words, He brought the Word that can be lived and the faith that can be used; it’s a new way of living life. Man was steeped in the darkness of sin, bound with fear, frustration and despair. Man couldn’t keep out of sin; he clung to the tree of evil and darkness and not to the tree of life.

Then Jesus came, and He is our tree of life. He came with such a wonderful, loveable voice, and there was no other voice like it. That voice said, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me (John 14:6). I am everything you need, your Shepherd, your Guide and your Savior. I am that I am, and I am the same now and forevermore. Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and for ever (Hebrews 13:8).

This is the Christ who lives within us. Paul recognized this when he said, I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me (Galatians 2:20).

How can you doubt the Christ that lives inside you? Why do you struggle? I make no room for doubt. I don’t pray for people through doubt; I don’t give them a doubting prayer. No, I offer them a faith prayer, one I know the Lord will hear; but they have to put legs to that prayer, and they’re the only ones who can do it. I can’t do it for them. They have to be obedient and humble before God.

Forgive Others

You can’t forgive people who have hurt you when you live in your feelings. You will hug that grudge to your heart and tie the hands of God, and then He can’t bless you in any great way. You can’t get to Heaven with a grudge in you. You’ve been offered divine forgiveness; and when you take that divine forgiveness that Jesus brought and use it through faith, you can forgive people of anything.

Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord (Romans 12:19). The Lord said, I’ll take care of your enemies; you just pray for them. Turn your enemies over to the good Lord in prayer; put them under the blood, and don’t try to even up the score. Let the Lord do that for you. Jesus said He came with a sword. Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword (Matthew 10:34). This sword works today, and the Lord will take care of you if you let Him; but you have to commit yourself and your ways unto Him.

Tear down everything that’s unlike God. Destroy bad imaginations and thoughts that would exalt themselves above God. Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ (II Corinthians 10:5). The Lord will help you do these things.

Follow Jesus

Jesus is our perfect example; don’t look at people. The devil will make you his little watchdog if you let him, and some so-called Christians do just that. They remind me of a little dog out barking at a full moon, but the moon pays it no attention. He howls, barks and growls; but the moon goes right on shining.

Let people work out their own salvation. Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling (Philippians 2:12). The Bible tells us not to mind other people’s business. But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men’s matters (I Peter 4:15). Leave people alone; work out your own life and your own salvation. Make sure that you’re pleasing God, doing His whole will, and following the divine plan of God for your life. Don’t make unnecessary small talk; the Lord can’t bless you for it, and then you’ll wonder why you’re not blessed.

Conquer Your Feelings

Don’t be deceived in your walk with the Lord. Are you walking in your feelings? If you think about it, you do a lot of things that you don’t feel like doing. You don’t always feel like getting up; but you do because there’s work to be done, and you have to make a living. As children we didn’t always feel like going to school or studying, but our parents never asked us if we felt like it; they weren’t that foolish. No, they were there to see that we did things right. They didn’t expect us to live in our feelings, and they disciplined us so we would conquer our feelings.

People who don’t conquer their feelings become just a stack of lazy bones. You have to conquer your feelings and bring self under subjection to the will of God. Jesus didn’t feel like dying when He was in the Garden of Gethsemane. No, but the disciples had gone to sleep, and there He was bearing our sins and our sicknesses alone and praying until His sweat became as blood. And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground (Luke 22:44). My Lord, what suffering!

And he went a little farther, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt (Matthew 26:39). Father, if it be your will to do it any other way, let this cup of death pass from me. Nevertheless, Father, not my will, but thine be done. Jesus didn’t say that through feelings; He said it through divine faith.

Jesus Used Faith

Jesus took on the fashion of a man; He became human. He came as the divine Son of God, born in an ox stall and laid in a manger. Divinity was in that manger that night; salvation was born in Bethlehem. Jesus didn’t feel like coming to Earth or going to Calvary, but by faith He did it. By faith Jesus was going to do whatever the Father planned for Him, and that’s the way we have to be, too.

I don’t ask myself if I want to do this or that for the Lord; I just do what He calls on me to do. I don’t like to travel, but I do it for souls. I don’t go on vacations like most people; I don’t have a desire to do that. No, I would rather work on other things and get more books ready to go to the world. I would rather seek God for people, helping them get what they need or helping them get their loved ones saved. There’s much to do, and we’re to do His work. When it’s all said and done, I want to be able to say with Jesus and with the Apostle Paul, It is finished. I’ve finished my work; I’ve done everything, Lord, you called me to do. But the only way I’ll be able to say that is to work at it day and night.

I’m on call to Heaven twenty-four hours a day. Any time the Lord wants to talk to me or wants me to pray for a lost soul, all He has to do is wake me up. He wakes me up a lot of times to pray, and I pray for people when they don’t even realize I’m praying for them. You can dial my cathedral’s telephone number any hour of the day or night, and you will go on my prayer list. The Lord knows all about your need; He keeps up with you through His divine faith.

Jesus Must Be Real

Jesus came and the faith that He brought was so gigantic that He said it would move mountains. Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you (Matthew 17:20). Divine faith will move mountains of distress, despair, hunger, sicknesses and diseases.

Many people say they believe in Jesus Christ, but how much do they believe?—Only as much as they can feel, and that’s about all. He’s not real to them; He’s not the same Jesus. Their feelings have made Him a Jesus who is far off. He’s not nigh to them; He’s not reality, and His blood is not real. Jesus is supposed to be just as real to you today as He was when He walked the shores of Galilee. You should have the same reality as those who looked upon Him and knew who He was. John the Baptist said, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world (John 1:29). Is Jesus that real to you?

Some of you walk like you’re in a fog. I don’t like nature’s fog; I like to see where I’m walking or driving. I like to know that I’m headed the right way and that I can stop when I’m supposed to. It’s a frightening thing when you’re driving in the early morning hours, and the fog is so thick that you can’t tell where you are. That’s a dreadful feeling, and I really call up Heaven for help.

I don’t serve God through my feelings, and I don’t pray because I feel like it. I don’t question my feelings; I keep them buried. I don’t talk about sickness, disease or weakness. I talk strength, and that’s what people expect me to talk about. What if I would come out and preach a sermon and every word in it would be negative? Would you want to hear it?

Well, it would be one great, big dose of poison, and why would you want to drink poison? You’ve been taught better than that. You don’t drink shoe polish, do you? No, as a child you were taught not to drink poison, and you didn’t use feelings to receive that knowledge; you took it through faith. You knew it wouldn’t be good for you, and there’s so much that’s not good for us in our walk with the Lord as well.

You Must Believe

Don’t keep your mind on pain. Who doesn’t experience pain at some time or another? I wish I could say I’ve never had a pain, but I’ve had plenty of them. I learned, however, that the Lord heals pain. I knew about the “painkiller” called Jesus; and I knew that when good doctors couldn’t help me, masterful surgery was available.

But some people just won’t believe God, and it’s no wonder why. They carry around so much unbelief that they have no room left to carry any faith. They don’t talk with faith; and if you don’t have faith talk, you don’t have faith.

Have Acting Faith

If you don’t have acting faith, then you don’t have divine faith; and dead faith won’t get the work done. Man and woman’s physical faith is always described in the Holy Scriptures as little faith. Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith (Matthew 8:26)? But remember that Jesus said if you have divine faith even just the size of a mustard seed—the smallest seed in the whole world—you can move mountains!

You read in the Word of God the wonderful things that God did through men and women who used the divine faith of God. By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith (Hebrews 11:7). By faith Noah built an ark, and it took him a hundred and twenty years to build it; but he had faith all that time. He couldn’t depend on his feelings, and he had to separate from all of his kin except his immediate family. Noah’s family did their work through faith, not feelings. They had no life of their own for a hundred and twenty years, but they were on a divine, grace mission; and they didn’t grumble and complain.

Don’t Complain

Some people have grumbled and complained for so long that they don’t even realize when they’re grumbling and complaining anymore, and they’re always complaining about something. That’s no help, so get rid of those complaints. Oh, if only Israel would have gotten rid of their grumbling and complaining! They would have arrived in Canaan in eleven days; but instead they wandered in the wilderness for forty years, and all but two who were twenty years or older when they left Egypt died in the wilderness for grumbling and complaining. Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me, Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun (Numbers 14:29,30).

God sent punishment and killed thousands of the Israelites for grumbling and complaining, but it didn’t cure them. And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died. Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people (Numbers 21:6,7).

What will it take to cure you of grumbling?—A good dose of salvation, divine love and grace. The Lord gives you all of that, and it is the cure when you live by faith, love, peace, goodness, gentleness, kindness, courage, grace, and all the other good things of the Lord. You will live by all of Heaven’s greatness when you live by faith, and the way you live is the way you’re going to die. If you live by faith, then you’ll die with faith and go to Heaven.

Salvation Comes through Faith

Some people have no faith with regard to Heaven and no faith to show them the way. They have no faith to show them that they must have Jesus, and without Him there is no Heaven. Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved (Acts 4:12). You must be a son or daughter of God to go to Heaven. You must have divinity in you, and you must be born again; you can’t get there by your feelings.

Nicodemus had been living in his feelings rather than by faith. He was considered a great teacher of that day, but he came to talk to Jesus. He recognized that Jesus was a much greater teacher than he was and that Jesus had something he didn’t know about or have. Jesus told Nicodemus, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again (John 3:5-7).

That’s faith! You must be born of faith blood, faith power, faith love and faith grace. You must be born new and take on a new life, a new and living way. Church membership won’t do it, and water baptism won’t do it. These things come after you’re born again and become a faith person.

Feelings Hinder You

You faith things out; you don’t feel them out. So quit saying, I don’t feel like praying; I don’t feel like going to church. It doesn’t matter whether or not you feel like coming to church; if you live by faith, your faith will bring you to church. It will get you out of that bed and bring you, if you yield to it. Faith will take that pain and weakness out of your body; but as long as you hold onto it, it will be yours.

Some of you will talk about your arthritis; but arthritis comes from the devil, and there you are claiming it as yours. The best thing you can do is say, Devil, you can have this back! It came from hell, and I’m returning it to you. Then you mail it back to him by way of faith. Faith is your postage, so stamp it with faith and send it back.

The Lord said He would renew your youth. Thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s (Psalm 103:5). How can you look at Heaven through faith and let it be real when you can’t even look at reality through faith here on Earth? How can you believe you’ll be with God for all eternity and that He’s building you a great, wonderful mansion when you don’t believe God will work for you now? Use faith now, and you can be healed and made whole.

You can have anything that the Lord promised through faith, and it’s unbelievable what the Lord has told us we can have. God’s divine love works with divine faith, so wherever you find divine faith in action, there’s always plenty of love. It was love that went to Calvary; it couldn’t have been done by faith alone. No, it took faith and love to go to Calvary.

Faith Led Christ to Calvary

Christ didn’t go to Calvary grumbling, God, why do I have to die for these people when they don’t appreciate it? They’re murdering me; they don’t want me! No, the voice of love and faith was going forth from Golgotha. But faith also said that Christ would come forth and be resurrected on the third day. Faith and love brought Jesus out of the tomb.

Don’t go by your feelings when it comes to the reality of the Resurrection. Faith tells you that Jesus came out. Faith is the reason I became born new when I was eighteen years of age and found the new and living way. Living by faith includes a faith walk, faith talk, faith receiving; and it enables you to call Heaven any time. You don’t need anyone to call Heaven for you; you can put in a call of faith, love, grace and promise; it’s just that simple.

Faith makes it so simple that even a little child can use this blessed faith, and many times they can use it better than some grownups I’ve seen. Children believe. You can see their eyes light up when they sing,

Jesus loves me, this I know,
For the Bible tells me so.

They believe it, and I believed it as a child, too. It was a part of me, and I didn’t doubt that Jesus loved me. I knew that He loved me, and I don’t ever remember thinking that He didn’t. No, God’s love was always real to me as a little one.

I don’t ever remember not being able to separate right from wrong as a child; it was taught in my home, and I just always knew. The right Book, that big family Bible, was there when I was born into the Angley family. I always looked at it in awe. That Bible was God to me, and God was in our home. I still love and adore that faith Book today. I never tire of preaching and teaching it.

Faith Reaches Out

Jesus didn’t go to Calvary through feelings, and He didn’t live by them either. One day, He was sitting by the well, weary from His journey and hungry for physical food. He had sent the disciples for food, and there came a Samaritan woman. She was a woman of the streets who was bound with demonic powers, and Jesus said to her, Give me to drink…Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans. Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water? Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle? Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw. Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither. The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband: For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly. The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father. Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews. But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things. Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he. And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked with the woman: yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with her? The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men, Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ (John 4:7,9-29)?

The Jews had no dealings with the Samaritans, but this was an entirely different Jew who had come down from Heaven and brought a new life. Jesus told her about the new life, and she wanted it. After she received it, she started a city-wide revival. She did it by first getting delivered herself; then she was made a witness and ran into the streets crying, Come see a man who told me everything I’ve ever done in my life. Is not this the Christ we’ve been talking about who would one day come? I saw Him; He’s here!

People knew that woman, and many believed by just hearing her give her testimony. Others ran to see Jesus, and then said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world (John 4:42).

You Must See Jesus

The Lord wants us to see Him. Stephen said, I see Jesus, and he certainly didn’t go by his feelings. He [Stephen], being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God. Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord, And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man’s feet, whose name was Saul. And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep (Acts 7:55-60).

Do you think that Stephen felt like dying, that he felt good when they stoned the very life out of him? No, but the Bible says that Stephen was full of faith and power, and he said, I see Jesus!

The Bible says we should look to Jesus. Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God (Hebrews 12:2). Jesus is our faith. Look to Him, and you won’t live by your feelings. Look to Jesus, and you won’t stay out of church when you could be there. You’ll know that Jesus will be there, and you’ll want to hear more about Him. You’ll want to hear songs about Jesus, be fed the Word of the living God, and help other people get deliverance. You will want them to be set free, and you’ll use your faith to help pull Heaven down on them.

Where Is Your Faith?

Faith and feelings—this message never ends; it just keeps going. Child of God, don’t make the Lord ever have to ask you, Where is your faith? The Lord has never had to ask me that, thank God! He gave me that faith, and a measure of faith is given to everyone. I used my measure after I got saved, and He gave me another measure and another measure. He keeps giving me more measures of faith, and I use them to help people throughout the Earth.

This faith is flowing to you now, and you can be healed of AIDS or the AIDS virus. You can be healed of TB, heart trouble, paralysis and leprosy. People have already been healed of these afflictions and diseases. A little, deformed baby may have been born with just part of a brain, but it can have a whole brain. That has happened to many children through this Jesus ministry. The Lord said, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth (Mark 9:23). I’m a believer. Will you be a believer with me?

Receive Salvation and Healing

First, if He isn’t real to you, say the sinners’ prayer and give your heart to Jesus. Oh, God, save my soul! I want to be born new and quit all of my sinning. I want to live in Eden and be like Jesus. I know Jesus died for me, and I believe there’s power in His blood to wash away all of my sins. Come into my heart, Jesus! Come on in, Jesus!

If you meant that prayer, you’re being born again right now, just like I was at eighteen. The world and all its sin went out of me, and I was a new creation in Christ Jesus.

Now you can be healed. I was in a dying condition at twenty-three, and I thought for sure that I didn’t have but just a few more days to live. Then Jesus came and made me whole all over. He’ll make you well, too, because He is Jesus, the Son of God! He became your sin-bearer and your sickness-bearer, and with His blood stripes you have physical healing. He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed (Isaiah 53:5). The Lord is the healer, and I am His witness. Lord, I bring the sick and afflicted to you. Lay a healing hand on them in the blood name of Jesus. Heal in the holy, blood name! Heal!

There will be miracles and healings in abundance, and Heaven is smiling on you. The Lord is healing the people and performing mighty signs, wonders, miracles and healings. Oh, praise ye the Lord!

Write and tell me what happened to you today as you prayed with me; many of you will have something really great to tell. And remember, live in the faith and love of God, the new and living way; it is abundant life. God bless you.