Bill Winston - Faith Unlocks Your Promises
Remember the time I had to get my car started and I had seen where Jesus spoke to a fig tree in it. 24 hours dried up. Now, in, in Brazil, we often sometimes we go down there to preach. I go to a fig tree restaurant. That’s how big a fig tree is. There’s one tree covering that whole restaurant. They built the restaurant around the tree. Now imagine that drying up in 24 hours. Now that’s got a lot to do with time now. Because time was never. You were never supposed to serve time. Time was supposed to serve you.
Now, you follow what I’m saying? And so here is this Jesus speaking to this fig tree. It dried up, and then he spoke to a storm. It stopped. Then he spoke to a dead man, and he got up. And then Jesus had the nerve to say the things that he did. Shall we do also? And greater works than these shall we do? Because he’s going to the father. Now, when he said that, I remembered and recalled those scriptures and I said, hey, I’m not going to just be a hero of this. I’m going to be a doer. Now, I have to admit, I’m being transparent now. That car wouldn’t start. It’s about 50 degrees below zero windchill in Chicago. And I backed off that car, got out of that car and backed off. And I remember I was at Mill Street and I looked to see if anybody was looking.
Now, I did that because I wasn’t used to acting like God. Like God would act, you know, He just said as He is, so are we in this world. Well, I’m talking about you’ve been stretched in this meaning. This is the meaning, you’re going back and you’re going to talk to stuff. This is that meaning. Isn’t that meaning? Yes, indeed. And so what happened? I said, Car, I’m talking to you. Y’all laughing over here. Let me go over here. I believe these some. I believe there’s some strong believers over here. Car, I’m talking to you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. You start. I went in the house.
Now you gotta understand that the supernatural is not always spectacular. That’s where some people miss it. And I spoke to that car and commanded it to start. I went in the house, got a cup of tea. Look, a little ball game for about a half an hour. Give God a chance to work. Then I came back out. Now, now! Hold on now. They’re starting to laugh over here. Everybody better come in the middle here. In half an hour got my bags and put on my coat because I wasn’t coming back. I was walking by faith. Because faith often puts you in a place of ridicule. And a lot of people want to be cool. You don’t want anybody to laugh. But, folks, human reason and faith are on opposite sides of the line.
So you got to get used to it. The world is, is living in unbelief. They believe if the doctor can’t fix it, it can’t be fixed. And Jesus is the original doctor and faith is the original technology. So what happened? I got in that car. Vroom! That’s all I needed. Now, I said, I’m going to go point at these bills. Come on now. You see, you gotta go from faith to what? Gotta go from faith to faith. You you gotta believe that. Wait a minute. If I can do that, then I can do this. And if I can do this, I can do this other, and just keep going. Keep growing.
Now, pretty soon you’re going to drift way over into the impossible. But the impossible feeds faith. Faith is looking for it. Your spirit smiles at the impossible. Why? Because you’re a lot bigger on the inside than you are on the outside. So this is where God wants you. Because we’re going all the way back to the garden. He. This is where he wants you. He wants you to imitate him now. And, folks, that’s where we’re going to end up. That’s where we’re going to finish this thing up. And I’m saying that you are the generation that God has been waiting for. There’s going to be big things that he’s going to do through this generation right here.
So, faith to faith. So he says that he wants us to move from one level of faith to another level of faith. And if he didn’t want us to do that, he wouldn’t have made faith, so it would grow. And he certainly wouldn’t put it in his book. Now, let me just cover some things here that I got here. You are in a class all by yourself. Ain’t nobody made like you. You know, you see something made in America. She is something else. Made in Japan. Well, they look on you as made in Heaven. Come on now. And we’re not talking about something that comes off the line with a defect that you gotta have a recall. We’re talking about God is perfect.
So I’m saying that you are kinds of people that are different from the world. And sometimes a church, I believe in the past has suffered from some kind of identity crisis somehow. Like I said, we end up competing with the world. And it shouldn’t be that. The world can’t stop storms. The world can’t raise the dead. Come on, help me now. The world can’t deliver demonic oppressed. I mean, the world can’t feed 5,000 plus women and children in a single afternoon with two fish and five loaves of bread. Am I right about it? I’m just talking about the things that he did. We can do too. Now greater.
Now, what I told you is that faith is simple. And I think that’s what kind of throws people sometimes, because they think you got to muscle up this, you know, something. But it’s just like picking up the remote and aiming it at the television and clicking it on or clicking it off. Now, wait, wait a minute. I don’t know how that TV works. And, I don’t care. Now, I’m telling you, I’m. I gotta say that, like I said, I’d fly an airplane, flying fighters in the military. And, I remember I came home one time, you know, on a time, vacation time.
And I remember one of my friends said, did you have to study all that airplane to know all about it and so forth? I said, yeah, yeah. He said, all the systems in it, the hydraulic systems, pneumatic systems and all the so forth and such, I said, yeah. He said, you know, all of it. I said yeah. He said, you still fly. I said, I fly because I don’t have to fix it. See, if I got to fix it. I’m not flying it. I don’t want to know about it to the point that I gotta fix my own airplane. I just want to know about it to the point that I can just take the throttle and push it forward and expect something to happen. And I’m telling you, faith is that simple. It is not hard. It is very easy and God wants you to walk in it.
Now, what we said is that everybody has been given the measure of faith. Say, I have the measure of faith. This is what Brother Copeland talked about just a minute ago. I have the measure of faith. So if you have the measure of faith, that means you have the same measure that I do. So you and I have the same measure of faith. So we should be doing the same kind of works. Say amen to that. We were doing a television broadcast now that Brother Copeland studio, and we were in between tapings, and he said something to me and it just absolutely just changed my whole paradigm. He said Bill, you know one department in your ministry has enough faith to believe God, for your entire budget, for the whole year, for your whole ministry. When he said that, something absolutely went off inside of me.
Turn to Matthew’s Gospel, chapter 9, please. Verse 27. «And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him, crying and saying, thou son of David, have mercy on us. And we knew his coming to the house. The blind man came to him». And Jesus said to them, «Believe ye that I’m able to do this. And they said to him, yea, Lord. Then touch he their eyes, saying, According to your faith, be it unto you. And their eyes were open, and Jesus straightly charged them that see that no man know it. But they went, and they told it everywhere».
Alright. Do you believe that I’m able to do this. Faith connects you with God’s ability. God’s ability is your inheritance. And when you operate in faith, faith compels God to move in on your behalf. And do whatever needs to be done. That’s why they call faith arrest. Jesus said, it’s not me, it’s the father in me. What does he do? He does the work. I don’t do the work. He says he does the work. He speaks it, and then God does it. I spoke to the car and God does it. Come on now.
Now, if that be the case, then I don’t have to be except someone who has the belief and willing to step out in the faith to make that come to pass. You don’t need to know how it works. And you don’t need to have the personal ability to make it to get the job done. Your job is to believe. I believe he’s able to do this. I said I believe he’s able to do this. Now. Where he’s about to lead me is in Canaan. And in Canaan. There’s nothing but giants. So he’s about to lead me into the impossible on purpose. He’s. I’m. I’m. No. No wait. You you act like I’m not talking to you. He’s about to lead you into the.
See, if we just do this stuff, that’s possible. There’s no difference. There’s no difference. People are looking for a different folk. It’s people looking for help. See, we can’t depend on the world. If we depend on the world, we go down to the level of the world. What we have to do is depend on God. We gotta know. Wait a minute. I know the doctor said it’s impossible, but God says it’s possible.
See, you and I are dealing with truth. And truth is up here. It’s the highest realm. It’s where God said. Let him be true and every man be a liar. And that’s what you’re dealing from, right there. That’s what we’re going to go up here. And this is where we’re going to say, now, listen, I know I respect the physicians and all that. They’ve been trained and so forth. But I’m telling you, sometimes when you come forth with with things against professions and the way people have been trained, they kind of have problems with it because they’re not over here in this faith realm. Say amen to that.
So I’m saying that we’re coming into a time now that the curse is working to the point is, the world is running out of answers. It’s running out of solutions. But you and I have the solution for any problem. I don’t care how bad the situation is, we’ve got an answer for it. Say amen to that. And the answer was here before the problem. And that truth is there. And when you speak, you’re speaking truth. Alright, so what he said to me, one department can believe God. When department. Why? They got the same faith.
Now, what’s the other model? Other models? The Babylonian model. That means all of it. Come on, Moses. Jezebel told him, said Moses. You keep this up. You’re not going to live long. Why? You’re trying to carry all these people. Now you take. You, you put your anointing on some 20 others or how many it was, and they’re going to help bear the burden. My point to you is, is that it’s that old model that I gotta believe for everything. So now my department comes to me. Television department said, pastor, we’d like this. I said, okay, fine. I okay it. Believe for it. Come on. They got the same faith as I do. Am I right about it?
It’s the same faith. I’m walking by faith. Very few times has God asked me to do something, I got the money in the bank. Folks, anytime I’m going on vacation, this is the first thing he asked me. He said, what’s your budget? So I come down with a budget. He said, you’re not going to pay for that, are you? Nah, I got it. I said, no. See? Faith is my currency. I said, no, I’m not going to pay for it. He said, alright, why don’t you sow a seed? I sow a seed. Here come the money. Boom! The budget’s met. I didn’t have to touch my bank account.
See, Jesus was teaching how to live in this economy according to Heaven’s economy. That’s what he was teaching. It’s just getting too deep for you. I’m telling you, because I’m talking about faith, now. I’m talking about this that you going to use. You’re going to walk in no matter whether you’re at home, whether you’re at the job. It doesn’t make any difference. If you work for somebody. Let’s say, and let’s say the company is struggling with problems. Now. Check it out. You have faith. So you can use your faith to help boost that company’s profits. Maybe that’s one reason you’re there. Are you with me? All right. I’m just. I’m still trying to cover faith now, because you have that faith. You have been given the measure of faith. Say, I have the measure of faith.
Now I gotta make this faith grow. Now how do I make this faith grow? I gotta use it. I gotta hear the word and I gotta do it. And that’s the way I’m going to make this faith grow. Faith connects us with God’s ability. Over in Genesis chapter 18, and verse 14. Is there anything too hard for the Lord? Faith has no respect for the word impossible. So when you hear the word impossible as far as you’re concerned, hit the delete key. Next, faith is the holder of your destiny. Wherever you’re going to be sent. Faith and the supernatural are going to be required. Are going to be required.
So somebody say, well, I really don’t know how to operate by faith. Can you talk? Because if you can talk, you got it. You hear this word and start speaking it. Let’s keep going. Don’t think with your mind. Think with the word. Because you’re going into a battle, and that enemy is going to try to steal your faith. Because he knows faith is the only thing that can get you to your destiny. So going to fulfill your assignment. Faith is going to be what you have to have. So we said faith is the master key. Faith is your servant. And faith is this international, universal currency. Isaiah 55, he says in verse 1, «Oh, I like to say, yo, everyone, that thirsts come to the waters. And he that has no money. Come, ye buy and eat. Ye come by wine and milk, without money and without price». Glory to God. I said, Glory to God.
Now, I said that faith will either get you the thing, or the thing to get the thing. It’s what faith will do for you. So if I got faith, I can get whatever thing I need. Now, don’t try to shrink it down so that you can afford it. Because everything that God leads you to has been paid for. Everything that God has told the children of Israel. Go into that land. Take that land and so forth. I have given you the land. He didn’t say I need you to rent this land or take out a mortgage on this land or whatever. It’s already your land.
Now, that boggles some people. I’m expanding you now because I’m finding out. Wait a minute. It is mine. He said all things are mine. God is saying I’m taking you into big stuff. I’m not taking you into small stuff anymore. You’ve been shrinking this thing down. You’ve been having this thing come down to a place where you go down there and take out this and so forth. We’re not doing that anymore. I’m taking you by faith. I’m taking you. I’m taking you to a piece of property you can’t afford. I’m taking you.
Come on. I’m taking you. I’m taking you into a place. Into a battle you can’t win. I’m taking. I want you to face something. Listen, this is a time now that God wants to show the world and the devil who he really is. And he has selected you to do it. Don’t be looking at your background. Don’t be looking at your pedigree. Don’t be looking at your race. Don’t be looking at anything other than did God say it? Because if God said it, let God be true and every man be a liar. You see it. This is already written in heaven. In heaven, it already got your name on it.
And, like Brother Jesse said last night, he’s just ready for you to ask him. When you going to ask him? He wants you to ask him. See it? Nothing here belongs to the devil in Colossians chapter 2. Jesus spoiled principalities and powers and made a show of them openly. He took back everything that the devil had taken from mankind. He had taken the earth. He had taken the people. Jesus said, I’m sending you for the people and the property. And I want you to take it all back.