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JERRIANN: Hi. I'm Jerriann Savelle and I want to
welcome you to the show today. You may be sitting there right
now thinking, "I have done everything I know to do. I'm
using my faith. I'm tithing. I'm going to church. I'm in the
Word, and it looks like nothing is changing in my life." If
you're sitting there thinking that right now, then I believe
that I have a Word for you from God, to help you get to the
place that you need to be in your life, that you're not
feeling overwhelmed, stressed out, frustrated, or impatient.
The Lord always deals with me either what I've been through or
what I'm going through, and the last several months I've been
dealing with this very thing that you're feeling. I've been
doing everything I know to do, and there have been times I'm
like, "Lord, what else do I do?" You know what? Hebrews 6:12 says
"That with faith and patience you will inherit the promises of
God." It's going to take patience to get you to
where you need to be to experience breakthrough
and victory in your life. Faith and patience
work hand in hand, and that's what we're going to
talk about the next several weeks. We live in a society
where we want instant gratification. We want things
now. We don't like to wait for anything. We want to take a pill
to make us skinny. We don't want to have to change our diet or
work out. We want things to happen now. I live in this
little town called Granbury, and it's on the lake, and it's a
little small town. There's a courthouse, and the little town
square, and it's a really cute place to leave, but one of the
things I don't like about the town is everybody drives so slow
there. I'm a mama of six, and I got places to go, I got things
to do, and I'm driving fast, and I'm trying to get past all these
people. You know what happens often times, is that I pass all
these people, and then I get to a red light, and they get right
next to me. I've accomplished nothing, but today I'm talking
to you beyond just that kind of patience. I'm talking about a
soul patience, where your mind, your will, and your emotions are
in patience, and in peace because you're staying in faith
knowing that God is faithful to His promises, that what His Word
says is for you, that you don't get off your faith, and you
believe and trust Him, and wait until the breakthrough comes.
It's going to take faith and patience working hand in hand.
We don't like to wait for anything. You know what? The
enemy wants us to get impatient. He wants us to get over and
impatience, getting frustrated, and eventually getting mad at
God because why is it taking so long? I'm doing everything I
know to do. Why is it taking so long? You know what? The
definition of impatience is having or showing a tendency to
be quickly irritated or provoked. Irritation with
anything that causes delay, restless, and eager, so that's
what the enemy is ultimately hoping will happen, is that you
get out of faith, you get impatient, and you get mad at at
God. That's not where you're going to get results when you
get over an impatience. You've got to stay patient and in
faith. He wants us getting so frustrated that we start taking
things on our own. We start trying to figure out things on
our own. We put things on our time frame instead of God's time
frame, but Galatians 6:9 tells us that
"there's a due season for everything we're going
through." There's a due season. There's a
set time for your breakthrough, but when you start taking things
into your own hands, then you allow compromise to come in.
I've learned in my life that when I allow compromise to come
in, then I start trying to make decisions on my own, and those
are flesh-led decisions. When you let your flesh decide what
you're going to do, then you create delay in your life for
what God had for you. You start trying to make things happen
that God didn't have set for you. He's got a set time.
Compromise is not God's best for you. I think the biggest example
of compromise in getting ahead of God, and trying to do things
on our own is the story of Abraham and Sarah. We all know
that story, but they had a Word from God that he would be the
father of many nations. In the natural, it looked impossible.
They could not see how that was going to happen. In fact, Sarah
started laughing. She just could not see how that was going to
happen, so she comes up with this great idea, and she says,
"I think that I'll give my handmaiden Hagar to Abraham, and
they can conceive a child." They take it into their own hands,
and they create Ishmael, as you know. My dad always says, he
says, "You don't want a Ishmael job, you don't want to drive a
Ishmael car, and you certainly don't want to marry a Ishmael
spouse, because it's not God's best. It was created from the
flesh. It was created from frustration, compromise. You
don't want Ishmaels in your life. You want Isaacs in your
life, so I'm challenging you today that if you're in that
place of frustration, you're in that place of impatience, then
get back in the Word, get focused on what God promises you
in His Word, and stay in faith. Stay patient and in faith. It
says this, Hebrews 6:12, "That faith and patience inherit the
promises of God." Galatians 5:22 tells this, that one of the
fruits of the Spirit that we're given is patience. Patience
means simply to be able to endure. If you're full of the
Holy Spirit, then you already have patience down on the inside
of you. You've just got to call on it, cultivate it, and stir it
up, and bring it out of you so that you can accomplish
everything that God has set for you. I believe it's Colossians
3:12, it says "To clothe yourself in patience." You're
going to have to make a decision every single day when you get
up, beyond just driving in traffic, but that you're patient
in your mind, your will, and your emotions, that you don't
get over into compromise, you don't get over into frustration.
Again, if you go there in your thought life, if you begin to
dwell on why God is this not happening, then ultimately
you're going to get over into anger, and that's where the
enemy wants you, getting off your faith and trying to figure
out this thing on your own. When you decide to do something on
your own, and you go out of God's will, and you compromise,
what you're really saying is God, I don't trust You. Ouch. I
know that hurts, but that's the truth. When we decide to do
things on our own, we're saying, "God, You really must need my
help because it's not happening fast enough." You know what? God
does not need your help. He just needs your faith. That's all He
requires of you, is that you use your faith, that you trust Him,
that you believe him. That's what faith is, is resting in the
finished works of Jesus. Hebrews 12:2 tells us, "Looking unto
Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith," so when you're
got your eyes on Jesus, not on the circumstances, not on what's
not happening, but you've got your eyes on Jesus, then it's
just a matter of time before that breakthrough comes. Again,
faith and patience. You have to make a decision in your life
that you're in this, this faith walk, for the long haul, that no
matter how long ... If it's a year from now and you're still
standing, and you're still believing, and you're not seeing
any change, that you're saying, "I will not get off my faith."
That I'm in this for the long haul. I will not quit. I love
that about my dad in this ministry. He's been ministering
all year on the faithful shall flourish, and for you have to
faith flourishing in your life, you have to be faithful, and
that's one of the things I appreciate about my dad in this
ministry, is that he's faithful. Even back in the day, when there
was no money in the bank, they had nothing. My dad was
preaching prosperity. He was preaching abundance. He was
preaching the favor of God because he was just patient and
faith, steady. Psalms tells us the steps of a good man are
ordered by the Lord. That's what it's going to take is faithful,
daily steps, staying in this. I wish that we could pray and
things just happened like that, and sometimes they do, but most
of the time, it's the daily faithful steps that we take
every single day. I've watched that in my dad's life and in
this ministry, is the daily steps of faithfulness.
Therefore, he's flourishing. This ministry's flourishing
because of the faithfulness of God and because of my dad's
faithfulness to stay in faith and stay patient. Listen to this
scripture. This is James 1:3 through 4 in the Amplified. It
says, "Be assured and understand that the trial and proving of
your faith bring out endurance and steadfastness and patience,
but let endurance and steadfastness and patience have
full play, and do a thorough work, so that you may be people
perfectly and fully developed with no defects, lacking in
nothing." Let it have its full play. Listen to the Message
translation. It says, "You know that under pressure, your faith
life is forced into the open and shows its true colors, so don't
try to get out of anything prematurely. Let it do its work
so that you become mature and well-developed, not deficient in
any way." You want to be mature and well-developed, not
deficient in any way. You want to go to full term. You want
full term in this. I think of my six kids. I've had six babies.
I'm given a due date with all of my babies, of when they're going
to be due. In the natural, those first few months, I can't even
see any change in me. I wasn't one of those that hard morning
sickness. There was no change in me, but you know what? Something
was happening down on the inside of my body, but I couldn't tell
a difference, but you know what? I had a set time. I had a due
date, and I was patiently waiting for that due date. You
have a set time in your life. Whatever you're going through
right now, there is a set time for breakthrough, but you can't
get impatient. You can't get frustrated. When I got the due
date of my children, the next month I wasn't mad, and upset,
and say I quit because my baby didn't come the next month. No.
I knew there was a set time, and I patiently waited for that set
time. I'm encouraging you today. There is a due date. There is a
set time. No, we don't know the date. We don't know the time,
but God's Word says that there is a due time, and a due season
for you. When you hold that Word in front of you, then it can get
you through every single day knowing that God has a set time
for me, and I'm not going to get off my faith, and I'm going to
stay in patience, and not be impatient. It's easy to say, "I
trust You, Lord. I trust You. You're my Lord. I trust You,"
but can you still say that when a year or two has gone by and
nothing's changed? Can you still say, "I trust You, Lord?" It's
easy to say it, but it's walking through it every day. I say this
all the time. The only way that you can stay stirred up in your
spirit is getting in the Word of God. Your natural self, you want
to go by the circumstances and what's going on in your life.
You wanna go by what you can see, but faith doesn't go by
what we see in the natural. Faith goes by what we see down
in here. Like I said earlier, we're looking unto Jesus. We see
out there what Jesus says that we can have. That's what faith
is looking at, and that's what can keep you patient while
you're walking this thing out. You're going to find out what
you're really made of, like that scripture says. Your faith life
is going to be forced into the open to show its true colors. Do
you really believe this? Do you really believe what God says
that you can have, or are you just quoting a bunch of things?
Dad has been talking about the faithful shall flourish, and you
can quote that over and over, but if you don't have faith
behind it, it's not going to happen. Faith and patience work
hand in hand together. Like I said earlier, impatience causes
compromise, and when you compromise, it causes you to do
a flesh-led decision. When you go in a flesh-led decision, then
you always bring delay in your life, and you don't want delays
you want God's perfect timing in your life. You may be single
right now, and you've started dating this person. They say
they're a Christian. You start dating them, but they're not
God's very best for you. You started to compromise because
you've gotten lonely. Or you've settled. I'm encouraging you
today, don't settle. You don't want to settle with just
somebody. You want God's very best for you. You want Ephesians
3:20 in your life, "Exceeding abundantly above all you could
ask or think." Maybe it's a job you just kind of settled for
this job, and you're not going after something that God really
wants you going after. Don't settle. Don't compromise. Don't
get impatient. Stay in faith. Stay in faith. Compromise causes
us to be unstable. It causes us to go to the left, to the right,
looking for solutions and fixes, but there's no quick fixes in
faith. It's steady steps of the faithful one, steady steps.
James talks to us about a double-minded man is unstable in
all his ways, and compromise causes you to be unstable.
Again, the only way that you stay stable, stay steady, stay
rooted and grounded in the Word is staying in the Word, so that
you can be patient for all things that come up. We don't
know what life brings us. Life can bring us different things at
different times. We don't know, but if you stay full of the
Word, then you can stay patient through anything. You also can
have joy in the midst of what you're going through. You can
still have a smile on your face. You can still be
believing God, and it's not that you're faking it. You're
faithing it. You're faithing it through this journey of faith
that you're in, believing that God has a plan and purpose for
you. You're expecting Ephesians 3:20 in your life. James 1:8,
like I said, tells us that "A double-minded man is unstable in
all his ways." When we're not patient, we're saying that God's
timing is not perfect, we have the perfect timing, and we know
what's best for us. I don't want to be in that place. I don't
want to get ahead of God and think I know what's best for me.
I've tried that in my life, and it doesn't work. Jerry does not
make good decisions without Jesus. I need God's perfect
timing in my life, so again, it's the faithful, steady steps
that will get you to where God wants you to be. Listen to
Hebrews 6:11 and 12 in the Passion translation. It says,
"We long to see you passionately advance until the end,"
until the end, and you find your hope fulfilled,
so don't allow your hearts to grow dull or
sluggish, but follow the example of those who
fully receive what God promised because of their strong faith
and patient endurance. There we are. There's those words. Strong
faith and patient endurance. That's what it's going to take
to receive the promises of God, that you're strong in faith, and
you're patient in endurance. You keep Jesus in front of you, you
keep His Word in front of you, you keep His promises in front
of you, and it's going to happen. It's going to happen.
You're not looking at the circumstances. You're not
looking at what's going around you, but you're looking at
Jesus. You have to stay patient and of faith. Faith is not moved
by the circumstances. Listen to this, Second Corinthians 4:18.
It says, "While we look not at the things which are seen, but
at the things which are not seen, for the things which are
seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are
eternal." We're not looking at what's happening around us. When
you decide to look at Jesus, then patience develops on the
inside of you. It grows on the inside of you, that you're able,
as Colossians says, to clothe yourself in patience, and get
you through every single step of the way. Patience is down on the
inside of you, like I said. It's part of the fruit of the Spirit.
It's just your responsibility to develop it, to grow, and to
become all that God's created you to be. You don't want to go
through life just struggling, just impatient and frustrated
and worried all the time. You want to have a confident
assurance that God is a God that cannot lie, that His promises
are for you, and that you're patient and steady on this walk.
It's going to take patience to flourish in your life, so I'm
challenging you today to get ahold of this, and begin to
clothe yourself every morning in patience, and know that I can
get through anything God's called me to do for today. I
will do it well. I will stay in faith, and I will stay in
patience. We'll be right back in just a few moments.
TREY: My name's Trey Johnson. This is my
partner story. I grew up in Andrews, Texas in a
great family, but as I got into high school and
college I started hanging out with the wrong
people. The Bible says that bad company corrupts good character
and so I started making wrong decisions. Just a little while
into junior college I ended up quitting college, and I moved to
another town, living with this girl. I went home one weekend,
and I never will forget it, because as I was getting ready
to go, my dad came out the back door, had tears running down his
face and he says, "Trey, the Lord's shown me that you're
going to die if you don't get your life right with the Lord."
I just thought he was just being a normal parent. I was like,
"Yeah right Dad, whatever." Went on about my business. Sure
enough, two weeks later I was going from one rodeo to another
rodeo in the middle of the night and the guy that I was roping
with was asleep in the passenger seat and the girl that I was
dating at the time was asleep in the back seat. I ended up going
to sleep while I was driving and I woke up and I was running 70
down a four lane highway, and I was in the median. When I woke
up I tried to get the rig back onto the highway, but I saw that
I wasn't going to make it so I pulled it back in the middle
because there was a big water culver in the middle, and I
straddled it perfect with the truck, and the truck jumped it,
but the trailer hit it right on. Of course, when the trailer hit
it, it separated the truck and trailer and spun us across the
highway. The trailer just went end over end over end. Once we
came to a halt over here and I saw everybody was okay I took
off running for the trailer. I crawled in the top of the horses
because we were waiting for the jaws of life to get them out.
They're kicking and they're pawing and there's blood
everywhere. I get down there and I'm petting them, and I
remembered my dad. I knew that God had spared my life that
night. In that horse trailer with blood everywhere, and by
the way, the horses did end up being okay, but in that moment I
called upon the name of the Lord and I asked him, I said, "Lord,
I want to know that you're real. I want to know you're presence.
I want to know your power." From that day forward I've been a man
after the heart of God, and I'm the same way today. When you
stay hungry, God'll open up doors. When you stay hungry,
God'll bring freedom into your life. I discovered Matthew
chapter six verse 33 which says, "To seek first the kingdom of
God in His righteousness and everything else will be added
unto us." I began to just simply put Him first. As I put Him
first He began to open up opportunities. He began to bring
freedom from this addiction and that addiction. Somehow, I got a
hold of Dr. Savelle's partner letter, and at the time I was
kind of secluded. I didn't have a church. I didn't know the
importance of a church, but I started memorizing his partner
letters and started applying the Word that came from him in my
life, and as I gave my attention to it, a desire began to build
to know God, to be my best, to discover my gifts and abilities
and passions. I began to discover that God was a good God
and He wanted good things for me. Which lead me to where I am
today, going all over the world doing leadership conferences,
personal development, roping schools, roping clinics,
competing at the highest level simply because a man was willing
to do what God had called him and created him to do, it
empowered me to be who God has called and created me to be. I
want to encourage you, if you'll stay hungry, no matter where
you're at or what you're going through, God will begin to move
heaven and earth to reveal His heart and His plan and His will
for you, so don't you back off from being hungry,
and keep growing and keep going. God bless you guys.
ANNOUNCER: Hebrews 6:12 says, "Be not
slothful, but followers of them who through
faith and patience inherit the promises." In the
powerful CD teaching Faith and Patience, Jerriann Savelle
shares on two of the key principles it takes to see God's
plan for your life come to pass. If you develop faith and
patience, you will inherit all the promises of God. Many people
misunderstand how faith works, or how to make it grow. In the
revealing book, The Nature of Faith, Jerry Savelle gives an
in-depth study on what faith is, and how to live a life of faith.
In its pages, you will discover how faith grows and decreases,
how to determine your level of faith, how to see through the
eyes of faith, and how your faith can move mountains. By
understanding faith and how to use it, you can experience the
life God created you to live. Don't wait any longer. Call or
go online now to JerrySavelle.org and request
this powerful combo, including the CD teaching Faith and
Patience by Jerriann Savelle, and The Nature of Faith by Jerry
Savelle. Discover the keys to faith and patience today.
JERRIANN: Welcome back. I want to encourage you to go to the
website right now and order this package that we're offering. I
did this message that I'm sharing with you now, but I did
it a whole lot more in detail at EMIC Women's Meeting, and this
is Faith and Patience, so that's what this CD is. I encourage you
to get this, put it in your car, and listen to it over and over.
Faith comes by hearing and hearing, so I encourage you to
get this. Also, my dad's book, The Nature of Faith. This is
such a good book, just the basics 101 on faith. It's really
easy to read. It's how faith grows, how faith can decrease,
how to determine your level of faith, how to see through the
eye of faith. It's just a really good book to refresh you. If
you're new in faith, then it just gives you a good foundation
of what faith is. I want to read to you a couple of testimonies
we got here at the ministry. I love hearing testimonies. This
is from Donna. She listened to my dad's message on suddenlies,
and Dad's been talking about the faithful shall flourish. She
said that they had some land for sale, and they both suddenly
sold. She had two pieces. One sold in May. One sold in August.
She said that is suddenly and that is flourishing. She said
God is truly faithful. Another lady wrote in, Veronica. She
said that her and her family wrote a prayer of petition so
that they could go on vacation. She said that they wrote down
the amounts and everything, and they were believing God to go to
Orlando. They got the tickets to go to Orlando for only $76. She
said they got an amazing hotels, pennies on the dollar, staying
at a brand-new hotel. She said it was because they wrote their
prayer of petitions, as a family, they agreed. I love
hearing these testimonies. If you're interested in becoming a
partner with this ministry, I encourage you to get online. The
information is there, and hook up with a ministry that's doing
awesome things around the world. I just want to encourage you. I
have this one scripture I want to leave you with, and it's
Colossians 1:11. It says, "We also pray that you will be
strengthened with all His glorious power, so that you will
have all the endurance and all the patience you need. May you
be filled with joy." I pray that over you today, that you have
all the endurance and all the patience you need, and that you
will be filled with joy today. I hope that you'll come
back next week and join us. Have a great day, and
know that your faith can overcome the world.
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ANNOUNCER: Next week. JERRIANN: You're going to
have to get up every day when you don't see anything
changing in the natural. Your circumstances are staying
the same, but you're going to have to put on that
patience coat. You're going to have to clothe yourself in
patience, and believe that God is a God of His Word, that He
cannot lie, and that whatever He's promised you, that it will
happen in you're life, but you're going to
have to walk it out, and walk it in patience.
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