"Father, we thank You for Your faith. Your faith in us! Your faith! By Faith, the world was formed. Thank You for Your Word! All things that were made were not made by anything that we can see. Thank You for the Spirit of Wisdom and of Revelation and of the Knowledge of You! You are the author and finisher of OUR FAITH. It is not about our faith, but the faith that You are the author and the finisher of! We need to have that kind of faith because without faith it is impossible to please you (Hebrews 11:6)! And you are the reward of our faith (Hebrews 12:2). It is important to know the Word, not to know what people are saying. We need to know the Word! And the Word made flesh is you (John 1:14)! "We thank You, God, that You have given us faith! We will steward it well. We will increase it. We will use it! We will use it, and You will multiply it!"
The Word says that we are the manifestation of the sons of God (Romans 8:19). If anybody preaches something else, it is false doctrine. Whatever exists today was spoken even before we were born. Let Him continue to write your story, the pages of our lives, because the pages of the Church were already spoken. What is your story? Before being written, Noah had a story; Abraham had a story. And we have a story! But are you writing your own story, your own verses of your own story? Are you the author of your own story? Only by Him will we be able to walk in the full measure of what is already written! But for us to be added in the general story and in the prophecy, we must also hear and be led by His Spirit and His voice. He has to be the author of our faith if we are still in the faith. That is not done by only reading the Word but by hearing God! People had to hear what was being said, and then they wrote what was said, and that became a prophecy! But they had to have faith for that to manifest! They had to believe and hear for them to write it! For them to believe it! All of these things working together for the perfection of the saints! We need to know what our written story is, and not the story that is written by man, but what was already written by Him! He said He has a plan for us to prosper, to give us hope and a future (Jeremiah 29:11). This is the difference between being in the faith and being a member of a church.
Let's dive into Hebrews 11 and Hebrews 12. "Faith comes by hearing and hearing the Word of God!" What made Abraham righteous was to believe in the Word that he heard! Everything that was written will be manifested, but you need to have faith in His faith! Faith in His Word. Faith in the Truth. People preach other end-time theories, but we can't give ears to that. If we are hidden in Him, He cannot deny Himself and His Word because He is the Word and the Word is Him! We need to understand the plan for the manifestation of the sons of God, that manchild in the book of Revelation (Revelation 12:5) shall be manifested!
Peter had the revelation of who Jesus was (Matthew 16:15-25)! Peter knew more about Jesus than His own mother knew! That revelation of Jesus being the Christ, the foundation of the Church, was given only to Peter, not even to His mom, and it was given by revelation. Yes, His mother heard an angel. That angel made that known to her. But we are talking about God's Spirit speaking in us to men supernatural words of life!
This question, "Who do you say that I am?" could only be answered by revelation given by the Spirit! That faith in Jesus was imparted to Peter at that specific moment! Upon this revelation, Peter, the Church was built! Nothing can be built if we don't get this revelation! Without revelation, there is no way to build anything. Everything in the beginning started from revelation, and it is sustained by that same revelation! The Church started manifesting as the Church after Pentecost, but the Church was founded even before the foundation of the world. At that moment, the Church was started, but we did not have the evidence thereof yet. That evidence of what was not spoken manifested. On the day of Pentecost, yes, many - including myself - say, the church started on that day. But if we dig deeper, everything that is, was made by that which is not seen. So, whatever is said by God IS! So truly, if you want to really see, the church started the minute Jesus said, “I WILL BUILD MY CHURCH AND THE GATES OF HELL WILL NOT PREVAIL.” We began to see the evidence on the day of Pentecost. We can say that God said, “Let it be and it was,” period! We have the book of Genesis full of declarations like that. This is where we can rely on this scripture: "His Word shall not return void!" (Isaiah 55:11). Wow! His Words are Spirit, and they are life (John 6:63)! His Word is what saves us when we hear Him. We are made alive when we believe Him. The government of love! God sent His Word in Himself! The Word is the seed of everything first. I can go very deep, but it is not time!
Who were the elders in the Bible? Those who were written in this chapter of Hebrews 11: Abraham, Enoch, Abel! They all heard God for themselves; they did not hear Him speaking through the pages! They heard Him, then they put it in chronicles and on paper. They heard His voice giving them His instructions! What makes us alive? Hearing God. What makes us dead? Not hearing God. The Word quickens our body and our spirit. The Spirit of prophecy is for those who have ears to hear. "He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches" (Revelation 2:11). People who never had the ability to hear demonize those who do, just like the Pharisees. This is why Jesus said, “Let the dead bury the dead” (Luke 9:60). Deaf people will mock those who hear because they are jealous and prideful.
Look outside your window! None of these things can make anything on their own because God is the only creator. This is how deception happens: satan counterfeits the creation because he has been given a level of power, but he doesn't create anything; he distorts, deceives, and falsely makes things appear, but they are already here. All he does is to pervert what is already created by God. This is called illusion. God is the only One who can create, and Jesus became the living Word. So, satan twists, perverts, and deceives through lies, using what was already made or is already written. Period.
In the time of Eli, the Word was very rare (1 Samuel 3:1), then Samuel heard God's voice. And Eli told him, "When you hear it again, answer it saying that your servant is listening" (1 Samuel 3:9). Samuel did not read about going to Jesse's house and picking David (1 Samuel 16). No, He heard God's voice on His own. Samuel obeyed God. We have to hear Him! This is what makes us alive. Through faith, we understand that the world was formed, and the world was framed by His Word. And everything started right here! If you frame something, it means you had something that was not put into place yet. But God has framed everything that He has created.
It never rained before, during Noah's time, but God said, “I will bring a flood of waters on the earth.” Noah heard God and began to build. Faith comes from God, not from Noah's wife, a theologian, or meteorologists. But by hearing God. It's His faith on its own merit! Noah heard God just like Peter heard Jesus. But Noah's sons didn't hear God telling them anything about building an ark. But his sons knew their father, and they could feel the faith that he really heard God because of the evidence of the power and the words of faith. So, they believed him and started to build with him that vessel out of what was spoken. The ark was created by them and their works. Their faith came freely without works, but their works proved what they heard and believed. THAT is faith! Listening to their father and building something that was never created before to be a vessel, just as the Church, because he said it. Now we are creating these vessels - all together - called the Church. At the last trumpet, we shall be like Him. We are working together with Him, but He is building it. We are just doing what he says! This heavenly city – this Church – has only one builder and maker. "For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God" (Hebrews 11:10). We are written in the New Testament just the same. Only by faith will we be able to meet Him in the air. By faith we believe, and because we believe, we must obey. That belief and His love make us have the fear of the Lord, not the fear of the devil. One type of fear produces life, and the other death. One produces faith, and the other unbelief. One is the beginning of wisdom, and the other the beginning of foolishness. Both will always show the evidence of what we believe in.
So how do we continue in the faith? By hearing Him. This is what religion does: "Did you read your Bible today?" But He said, "Seek Me daily so I can feed you. I am the bread of life. My Words are Spirit, and they are life." Everyone else has their portion of Him leading them. So how do you have faith? You need to hear Him; seek to hear Him more than you want Him to do something for you. He is a rewarder of those who seek Him (Hebrews 11:6). I'm standing here because of the faith I had when I heard Him telling me what to do, where to go, what to say! He never said that man shall live by reading the Bible. He said, "Man shall live by every word proceeding out of the mouth of God" (Matthew 4:4). This is the present tense of the Alpha and of the Omega, the one who was, who is, and who is to come (Revelation 1:8)! Right now, He is "WHO IS"! Wow! Oh man, if you get this. You will be unstoppable!
Man can't give you faith; it all comes from God. Many are seeking it from others. That's why we see so much idolatry in the churches. Dead people can't eat! As a dead person, you can't try to obtain and eat it because that's a spiritual meal; it's spiritual. And if a person is dead, their spirit is as if they are living in flesh and blood. This vessel and our spirit must be working together because we live in a body, but we shall not be ruled or led by our flesh. How do you become a son or daughter of God? Through the power that He has given us. Power to become! "But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name" (John 1:12). Who is He? The Word. So we receive the Word, and then we have the promises. But you must 1) have faith in this, 2) be given power, or you will never become that! That power is what makes you as born-again. That is a miracle. His Word has the power to resurrect your life. It is not flesh that He resurrects. What died in the garden through disobedience is made alive by His obedience. Wow! That power destroyed death once and for all, what was separating us from God, and now, through the same power, we are put back together! The power of His blood! Now, who is leading you? If it is Him, you might not know every hour of the day where you're going, but He promises to get you to the place where He wants you to be. But it takes faith in His promises! Will you make Him drag you? Will you make Him spit you out where you are supposed to be, Jonah?
Today, God is building spiritually. We are the ones helping Him naturally. How do we continue in faith? By hearing Him constantly. The devil will say how crazy it is to follow Jesus. But keep following Him. No man has ever seen the Glory of the latter Church. It was written by the One who has made all things. When you have faith in the written Word, He will start to show you the mysteries in the pages. He said, “I will pour out my spirit on all flesh” (Joel 2:28, Acts 2:16-17). Because of this promise, we will see the comforter.
Everybody wants to know where they are going to be in a year, and they start to put their trust in what they will have, where they will live, and how much money they will have. Those who are poor in faith must rely on their own strength. He will build His Church, not by the hand of man, but by God, who is the builder and the maker. You are not the builder nor the maker! It is not you. Why do you keep writing your story? You keep having to have faith in what you see and not in what you hear, but you call it faith! Just because you go to church, you think you are a believer! What if you don't hear His voice? Where is the evidence of your faith? Where are your works of faith?
Through faith, the worlds were framed; through faith, the Church is built by God. If you have faith, you are running! "Let us run with patience the race that is set before us" (Hebrews 12:1-2). Why are you sleeping and not running? We must have this mindset: "If I don't do this, we're going to sink." I believe no matter what anyone else is saying, when my faith is manifested, the world will see my works, my obedience, and my faith in Jesus, not in my own strength, or faith in my own story or my own chapter, the chapter that I am writing. We know how precious it is to have patience! It's more valuable than gold and silver, and one of the most precious fruits of Jesus. That joy set before us is Christ. You may have faith for your healing or deliverance, but you need faith for your transformation. When the flood came, who got the Glory? God got the Glory, and Noah was made to be a man of Truth. He got to be part of the famous Hall of Faith mentioned in Hebrews 11! Is your name there as well? After God backed Noah up, he was not considered crazy anymore. He was considered a smart man, a righteous man, even with all His fleshly faults and His humanity! What the world calls crazy, God calls faith!
When what is written for the end-time Glory begins to manifest, and what He said begins to be the evidence of everything we are hoping for, you will see how great this reward is! First, we hear Him, then we have faith, then God moves, then you and the whole world will get to see the evidence of your faith. I want a healing in my body: I must have faith first, then the evidence is what we were having faith for. The woman with the issue of blood had to have faith (Luke 8:43-48). He's the author of it; it's not your faith, but it's His. You are just a steward of it. The author is the writer! You must have someone writing, especially when He is speaking! Write down the vision, write His Word on the tablets of your heart, write it in your mind! Faith comes by hearing and hearing God. He said, and if He said it, it shall surely come to pass, even if it tarries long (Habakkuk 2:2-3). I have seen people’s and ministries’ visions: you know that they are not from God. First, their vision never came to pass; secondly, their vision sounds like a wish list that keeps growing. They have been deceived by the false faith movement: Name it and claim it. They are always striving because they did not hear God. They only read the Bible, took their gifts, and began to serve their own vision, and are writing their own story. They are always lacking, always in need, and always eating only paper!
Many who call the Holy Spirit a strange thing are just dead. Who is the author and finisher of your faith? Not the spirit of this age, and not just the letter without the Spirit. Before Adam and Eve were, He was. That's why He is the author and finisher of our faith. Because of that measure of faith, you can believe. We put on Christ, and we let Him tell us what our future is, where we live, and where we go. Is He not the author and finisher of your life? You have blood when you were born, but you were born dead. Only when we are born out of His blood are we made alive! In His blood, there is life! His rhema words, there is life! However, He speaks them, feeds us in our spirits.
People spend their entire lives making plans. But today is the day to let Him read you the story of your life. Let the Lord take the pen out of your hand and let Him tell you what He has written already. He is the pen of a ready writer (Psalm 45:1), so in other words, only speak what He has said and is saying, and it shall be, not what we just read only, but the "IS" of God, the Spirit now. Or if you stay as the ready writer of your life, you make Him and His Word of no effect in your life. He is a rewarder. It's not you, and it never was. It's Jesus. What is written of Him is now concerning you! Jesus was speaking, "I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail." This will be now, I must let Him make it me!
Listen to His voice and have faith in His voice! Who called Abraham? God did. Who called you? God. Brazil did not call me! Organized religion did not call me! God did! The One who calls is the only one who can anoint you and appoint you! Who is leading you? You might not know where you are going! But He is the only one who can get you where you are going. All things working together! Satan keeps saying, "How crazy it is to follow Jesus!" but God said, "It is going to rain." "Haha, Satan mocked Noah through the people!" The crowd mocked Jesus when He said, "I will destroy this temple and in 3 days I will raise it up" (John 2:19). Ha, ha, ha! Who got the last laugh? God! Just because Jesus did not understand, it does not matter. We are alive. Let the dead bury their dead once and for all. Let Him finish your story!
We must have faith in this Glory that He has promised! We can't have faith in the doctrine of man, but faith in the written Word that carries the breath of God, not in the dead letter! Whatever He said, it shall happen! But people keep thinking about their circumstances! If you have faith, you are the richest man in the world! You want to be the author and finisher of your own faith! But Jesus called you a faithless and perverted generation (Matthew 17:17)! We must look for that faith in Jesus, who was the One who said, "I will build my Church." How will he do that? Through us! Why do you keep writing your own story? You called it faith because you go to church, but you have faith in your own self! Through faith, I was born again; through faith, the Church has been built! God considered us righteous by the faith we have in Him. Not in our own story. The evidence of His story is the manifestation of the sons of God and the provision for the vision!
Some of you are, daily, always adding a line, a verse, a chapter in your life, but nothing that you are writing has been written by Jesus before the foundation of the Earth. You are the author of your own life story! The joy set before you should be what is stirring your faith and hope! So, get your eyes on Jesus, the author and the finisher of your faith! Or you will prove that you don't have faith in what He already did on the cross!
And you won't have faith in your own transformation, deliverance, or healing! You will end up using your faith to not go to hell, but you will lack faith to believe in 100% His words! For this end-time Glory to be manifested, we need to believe in all He wrote, and only then will we see the fullness of it! We need to have faith in what has not been seen! God wants us to have faith in what He is doing for this end-time church! This is the only way to see the full manifestation of it!
It is not about your faith but His faith in you! He is telling the story in our ears! Noah did not read about it. He heard it from the mouth of God! When God is finished with the ark, when God is finished with the building of you, the rain will come. Be patient! Everything He said will be, or He did not say it at all! This is why Paul said in 2 Corinthians 13:5, "Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith…" Authentic faith has the evidence of what its faith is in! The works of that faith can be seen. This is how we know!
Are you writing your own story, or is He speaking it to you? Noah, Abraham, and Jesus had to know about the joy set before them. They had to have faith in the faith inside of them. Noah and Abraham had to rely on His faith within them! We are not saved by our own faith! Jesus endured the cross! He ran the race! We need to do the same! We cannot faint in our minds! Before we give up our faith, we are already giving up in our minds! Is He not the author and finisher of your faith? Of your life?
"Faith, write the story of my life! Read it to me and I will have faith in what I am hearing!" This is what Paul expressed when he said in 2 Corinthians 3:2-3, "You are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read by all men; clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart." Written not by ink but by the Spirit of God! We are living epistles read by all men! How? Faith created the evidence, and our lives are seen in what we have faith in!
So, today, let God get the pen out of your hand because He is the author! Put that pen down! He is the pen of the ready writer! He is a rewarder of those who seek Him, the author and finisher of your faith. "God, rip out all the chapters of my life that I have written!" Jesus is speaking, "I … am building my Church." It is not us building ourselves, no. He is doing it! Faith comes by hearing and hearing God! We will live our lives without faith if we are not hearing Him! "Father, I open my ears to Your voice that I might have faith like Abraham, like Noah, like all the elders who have a great report, and like You, Jesus! You wrote their stories, and it was manifested! My story version does not mean anything in heaven. I am no longer the author and finisher of my faith! My life shall hear You! Help us to come out of anything that stops us from hearing You. We thank you, Jesus, for being the author of our life and finisher of our faith."
Now, don't live without faith! Don't keep living without hearing Him! Don't keep writing your own story. Put your pen down and pick up His faith! Burn your story up! Burn up everything that was written by you, by soothsayers, charlatans, false teachers, and false prophets! Only what He has written will remain in the pages! Without faith, it is impossible to please Him. Without hearing Him, it is impossible to have faith because faith comes by hearing Him! So, we can't live without faith just as we can't live without hearing Him!
Amen!
Shane W Roessiger
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