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Adam Mesa is Lead Pastor of Patria Church and speaks to a congregation of 12,000 about how the gospel of Jesus Christ brings purpose to every life. Patria
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The Power of Visionary Devotions 0:00 Welcome to a powerful message featuring pastor Adam Messa. Thanks for listening. Let's dive in to the transformational word of God.0:09 You know, tonight I I thought I'd I'd like to share is, what it means to have visionary devotions. In other words, what does it mean to have a rich perspective and0:20 love for the word of God that gives you sight in blind times and blind moments. You and I will always face that in life where we don't know what direction to turn to or look to. We may0:32 have difficulties in relationship, in marriage, in with spouses in the workplace. And really what we find through the word of God is the word of God can walk through and inform you0:44 of everything that God's voice has for you in your life, barring you and I are willing to lean in in God's word. And that's what we're talking about, what it means to have visionary devotions. It means that when I0:56 approach God's word, I approach God in the miraculous. Because God's word, which I'm gonna kinda share with tonight, God's word, it's a miracle working1:08 voice. You see, this this thing that I hold in my hand, this the word of God, the bible, the the literal word of God, this is absolutely transformative in your life. I don't1:20 know if you've ever been sick before, if you've been in a difficult situation, and you've prayed to God, really believing for a miracle. In the same way, that is what the word of God does as you read it. It's a1:32 it's a wonder working power for your life that can inform you for your life. And it's and it's literal, it's something to be taken. This is not just a collection of stories. This is1:44 not just a history book. This has been since really the printing press was invented. This has been the number 1 selling book in the world since the printing1:56 press was invented. Now if just a collection of a few guys got together over the years and wrote this, there's no way that the miracles that2:08 stand behind this word would be as consistent as it is. It has power. It has miracles that can be done in your life if you would just begin2:19 to open up the pages of it. Some of the best, children's stories that we know that Disney and others have done over the years, those stories are based off of children's books that all they did was let the2:31 pages open up and jump out and tell a story. And transform your life. That's what Alice in Wonderland is. That's a book. All the other, really children's fairy tales that we know, they come from books2:43 because those can jump out at the pages at you. But the word of God can do so much more than just jumping out of the pages. It can transform your life. Yeah. And that's what the fast is all about.2:55 It's letting God literally transform me through his word and fulfill my life through his word. It's been said in America right now, currently,3:07 there's, there's about 330000000 people in America. Pew Research has done research, and they found that 65 percent of Americans,3:19 65 percent, that's more than 50 percent, 65 percent of Americans identify as Christians. 65 percent of them. Out of those 65 percent3:31 of them, you wanna know how many of them believe that the bible is true and it's to be taken literal as God's word for your life? 24 percent of them. Less than a third3:43 of people who identify themselves as Christians either a, actually believe that this has been given to us by God, or b, actually even3:54 think that Jesus walked this earth. And see, the reason why sometimes we cannot value the miracles that that's done in our lives, the reason why we don't see revival as quick as people4:06 do, people will ask that question. Why why doesn't revival happen like this? Why doesn't healing happen like this? Well, I would ask the question, why does less than a third of people actually believe that God canFaith: Framework, Fragrance, and Fight 4:16 actually do those things? Amen. Who identify themselves as Jesus followers. I'm not talking about just Americans in general. I'm talking about 24 percent of the 654:27 percent who identify as Christians actually believe that this can radically transform their life in a literal way. And so it's true that as we do our devotions, as we spend time with4:39 God, we can see today through God's word, it can radically change your life. And I wanna share really as our catapult, our foundation day, as you're taking notes, whether it's on your iPhone or iPad or, in a4:51 journal, we're gonna launch into Hebrews chapter 11 verse 1, because this really identifies, and it really gives us the answer to what God's word can do for our life. And in5:02 Hebrews 11 1 and 2, It says this in Hebrews 11 1, 2 and 3. It says, now faith is the assurance of5:14 things hoped for. For the conviction of things not seen. In other words, faith is knowing without a shadow of a doubt that though I don't see it, it's5:26 gonna come to past. Or though I don't see Jesus, I know he's real. For by it, the people of the old received their commend5:38 commendation. By faith, verse 3, so important. By faith, we understand that the universe was created by the word of God. So5:50 that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. In other words, God spoke and there was creation. That is that6:01 is a faith statement that God did. It was something that was unseen, and by his word, he brought it to fruition. And so what the writer of Hebrews is telling6:13 us is in the same way that God did the miracle of creating the universe by his speech, his word, in the same way, if you understand and read the6:25 word of God in the things that are unseen in your life can begin to become a reality just by the word of God. It can radically transform6:37 your life. He's saying faith faith, belief in God, trust in God is informed the foundation is the word of God. I appreciate6:49 prayer. I appreciate worship music. But without the word of God that informs those things, all those are are empty words. Without7:00 God's word that helps us gain knowledge of who God is, who his character is like, who he is as a person, his love for you and I, his desire for you and I, if we can be7:12 informed of that by the word of God, then that means my prayers will be radically changed. And see, so often people people treat faith, which7:24 is informed by the word of God, oftentimes people will treat the word faith as an ideology. Has someone ever told you before, whether regarding your faith or not, they'll I'm7:36 not talking about Christian faith, just in life. Well, you just gotta have faith. You ever heard that before? Maybe going through a relationship trouble, or maybe going through a work trouble, maybe you're in between7:46 jobs, and you're hoping for the best. It may not even be, hoping God in that moment, but it could be. And then someone gives you the advice. Well, you just gotta have faith. And7:57 oftentimes, they mean that in such an empty way. Just have faith. Faith in what? Faith for what? Faith for how? What8:09 are you even talking about? They they treat faith as an ideology. Just just a statement, a flagrant term. But when God uses the term faith, it actually there's8:21 a substance to it. It's not an ideology. When God tells you to have faith in Jesus Christ, he's not telling you to have an ideology towards Jesus Christ. He's saying have a foundation8:33 in the reality of who he is in your life. He'll radically change your life. That's not a figment of your imagination. That's not an ideology. As sure as right now as8:45 I hold this ball in my hand right now, and I could toss this up and down, and it has a feel, and it has a touch. You tell me, Jesse, does it have a feel? Does it have a touch? Is it is that is that8:57 nonexistent? You're okay. You threw very good. You're strong. Was that nonexistent? Did I say here, catch this ball, and then you just you touch nothing? Do you know if I if I throw it over9:09 here and I say, hey, catch this ball, did that did that have a feel? Did that have a touch? It's light is but is there a weight to it? It's light, but there's a weight to it. Right? I mean, it's it's not no grams.9:21 It has a touch. It has a feeling. It can bounce. It has movement. If I talk about this ball, everyone is looking at this ball as it's a reality. No one's looking at me9:33 right now and saying, he's not really holding a ball. That's a hologram. That's a virtual reality thing that he's doing. Now you look at this and you believe that this is real. In the9:45 same way, when we read our word, we don't read this as me just holding nothing in thin air. We don't read this as just a figment of imagination. When you read9:57 when you read the word of God, it's a reality. It's tangible. You could touch it. When you read God's word, and it talks about healing, and it talks about miracles,10:09 and it talks about God's voice, and it talks about doors that God can open, and it talks about God's love and affection. You don't go, oh, that'd be nice if I could have it. You go, no. No. It's right in front of me just10:20 like this ball could stand in front of me. I could reach out into those scriptures and I could grab those. I could touch those for my life. I can apply them into my life. You see10:32 Hebrews 11 1, if we can put it back up on the screen. It says this, just to focus on the top and it says now now faith is the assurance10:44 of things hoped for, and the conviction of things not seen. And then we jump down to verse 3, by faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of10:56 God. But going back up to verse 1, it says, now faith is the assurance of things hoped for. So what what is faith? The question would be, what is faith? As I'm doing this fast,11:08 as I'm spending time with God, when I pray to God, if I'm faith is the belief in something you can't see and trusting that it's real. But it says, the Hebrew, the author in Hebrew says, now11:19 faith is the assurance. What does that assurance part mean? Because that's that's really part of the key phrase of that. Well, the Greek word for assurance is hypostasis. It's a term that we all11:31 use. If you're in the medical field, you'll use it a lot. If you're in chemistry, you'll you'll use that term a lot. If you're in bible school, you'll use that word a lot. Because what hypo11:43 hypostasis means is in a chemical way, it's if you fill a liquid and a and a physical and you add some type of object like a sediment or a or a solid into11:54 liquid, into into a into a canister, and the solid that falls on the bottom that's held, the substance on the bottom is known as hypostasis.12:06 In the same way, we know in the medical field that that's known, it's not always a positive thing, but it's known as the things within your organ when blood rushes down, the weight of the blood rushes down into a12:18 particular organ. Someone goes into hypostasis. Theologically, when we are in seminary, hypostasis theologically means the reality of Jesus being fully God and fully12:30 man, and the weight that comes with who he is. It's what we learn in seminary. You see the terminology in this, where it says now faith is the assurance, faith is the12:41 hypostasis. What it's saying is faith is the weight. It's the thing that holds your life together. And then we would say, but then12:53 what is faith about? Or what informs faith? Well, that's where we go to verse 3 now. What informs faith is the word of God. And so as a13:05 Christian, if you wanna be grounded by God, if you wanna be led by God, and you wanna have faith, it means that the substance of God's word has to fill your13:17 life. It means you have to be full of, weighted down by the word of God. Because it's God's word, the very same words that created the universe13:30 can radically transform your life. If God can speak and create all the heavens and the earth, how much more could he radically change our life with just 1 word?13:42 And we see that in the life and ministry of Jesus where Jesus would often give 1 word to somebody. He'd change them. A blind person would be healed. A lame person would walk.13:54 A possessed person would be healed just by the words of Jesus. Because it's God's words that inform our lives that can keep us grounded. So whenever you find times of trouble in your own14:06 life, when you feel like things are chaotic, the best thing you could do to ground your life is to know the words of God that are found in the bible. To read it. To have relationship with14:18 it. And then to look at it and then reach out and touch it. As I looked at it and I'm reading the old and new testament, as I read a miracle of Jesus, I don't go, oh, how nice for that person. No. I reach out and touch14:29 that and I say, God, I receive that for my life. God, I pray that over my wife. God, I believe that over my son. That's real to me. That's not like, oh, I hope God can do14:41 that for my life. I look at that and I say, God, I can touch that as sure as I could touch a ball, as sure as I could touch hair. I see that and I feel that, god, to radically transform my life.14:54 So here's very briefly with the few moments we had today. Here's some things that faith has under the umbrella of the word of God that grounds us. So the first thing that faith has, which is kind of15:05 what we introduced already, is faith has a frame or a framework. Faith has a framework. We often view faith15:17 as kind of like a ghost. It's untouchable. It's something you just say that can't really be put into explanation. But according to God's word and according to Hebrews 11 1, 215:29 and 3, is faith literally has a framework and an objective. And so if you came to me right now, and you said, Adam, pastor Adam, I'm believing God15:41 for blank. I could respond to you as a pastor, as a fellow brother in Christ. I can respond to you and say, what is your framework for believing for that?15:54 In which you could respond, what do you mean by that? And I could say, what is the what are the words of God? What are the scriptures that are informing your faith for that16:06 thing? If you don't have that, then that's where as a pastor, I would encourage you to go in the word of God and find that.16:17 Because faith has a framework. It's not null and void. It's not imaginary. It's tangible. It's hypostasis. It's an assurance. It's knowing. And so the things that I'm believing16:29 for, I'm believing for God's healing. My response to you would be, what is your framework? What what are the scriptures? I don't16:41 know. It's there's a story somewhere in there I'm kinda hoping for. Now what are the scriptures? By Jesus stripes, I am healed. What are the scripture? And those are the things that pastor Diego always goes through is16:53 that he had hundreds of healing verses that he would memorize every single day. Because what was he doing? He was looking at those scriptures and he was building his framework. To say, god, I reach out for17:04 those verses. I have a framework for my faith. It informs it. So we have to be knowledge knowledgeable about God's word. Has to become deeply17:16 personal to you. God's word is not a spouse's relationship with God. It's not a friend's relationship with God. It's not a grandma or grandpa's relationship with God. The framework is personal for you. Amen. And17:28 everyone's faith will have a different framework. The word of God never changes, but how it applies to your life, you may have a different framework than I do that pushes my life, that informs my life. But all of17:40 it is rooted in scripture. There was a time, when when Matthias, was was was born. So my my wife was in labor and, she was, she was17:52 in the labor room And, mind you, it was it was our first child, and, it it it's any interest I ever took into the birthing process, anyone else in my life when they were having a baby, I I was18:04 like, that's not my kid. So I don't know anything, about having kids. So it was very new for us, you know. Right? So, husbands, you've ever said something that when it came out of your mouth, you just thought,18:16 man, I wish I could just grab that and put that right back in, my mouth at the moment. You just immediately bite on bite on your tongue. Well, I had 1 of those moments. So we're we're in the room. Ashley had18:27 Matthias. People start coming in and visiting, and then people begin to say, and I don't know the exact time she would know him, but people begin to say, how long were you in labor? And she like responded. She was18:39 like, oh, I was in labor for 13 hours. And I go, no you weren't. And then she goes, yes I was. See, you weren't in labor for 1318:51 hours. She goes, yes, I was. I said, you were only pushing for like 30 minutes. That was what labor was. You were in labor for like 30 minutes. It was when you were19:03 pushing to when Matthias was coming out, in which she looked at me with this look of death. And she was like, that's not what labor is.19:17 And to me to me, I thought the hard work began when like the baby started crowning. You know? I'm like, that's when he because I because I told her, you know, husbands, when you should19:29 just shut up. Because I told her, but during those 12 hours, like, you were on your phone on Instagram and stuff. Like, you were still doing things. And obviously, we have a relationship where we can mess with each19:37 other. We won't argue anything, but I'm messing with her at this point, but I'm also half trying to learn. And she's like, that's regardless. I was still in labor. The hard work had already begun the day before.19:50 That's when the labor, that's when the process of birthing actually started. That's when contractions started to come. And she begins to then inform me of something that I don't know. What is she doing? She's building20:01 a framework in my ignorance so that I don't make this mistake again That's good. Ever again, and say something that I shouldn't say with someone else that's not my wife,20:14 and get in trouble. And so now, if someone were to say how long they were in labor, there's 2 things I'm gonna do. I'm just gonna shut up and nod, and say, wow, you're a champion. You're such a fighter.20:26 Because I know, to be quiet, I was in uninformed because it was not personal for me. I didn't do the fight. That was not my fight.20:38 You see, faith, you have a personal fight in your faith. And you have to have your framework. And I may not always be able to understand your labor pains. And I may not always be able to understand when your labor pain20:50 started. And I'm not here to inform you on when they start and when they end. But what I am here to encourage you with is there is a process in labor. And if you wanna give birth to something that God has for21:02 your life, you're gonna have to build a framework around what it means to give birth, what it means to be in labor for something that you cherish. And if you cherish God's word for your life, and if you cherish God's21:14 application for your life, then you have to be prepared to put the framework in place. Faith has a framework. And the second thing is21:25 this, is faith has a fragrance. Faith has a fragrance. Second Corinthians, this is where these become very tangible. It's very real. This is not a21:37 figment. This is not, some type of spiritual thing. It's very real. Second Corinthians chapter 2 verse 14 to 16 says this. It's apostle Paul speaking. But thanks be to21:49 God who in Christ always leads us to the triumphal procession. And through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of22:01 him everywhere. For we are, you and I, input your name. So for we are, put put your name there, for Adam is the aroma of22:12 Christ to God. Among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing. To 1, a fragrance of death. To another, a fragrance of life to22:24 life who is sufficient for these things. You see, your walk, your faith, your devotions that are rooted in God's word has an aroma.22:36 That's why when you grow in your relationship with God and you grow in your pursuit with Jesus, you'll often hear it. And if you haven't heard it, you'll hear it at some point. Somebody will say, there's something22:47 different about you. There's something unique about you. 1 time I was sitting as a Kaiser and a lady was fitting me for glasses and she said, there's a light around you. There's something unique22:59 about you. And I backed up and I said, the only light that I have is the light of Christ. And I said, I follow Jesus Christ. And she said, I knew it. There was just something about you. You see, that's what happens23:10 is your faith, when you're pursuing God and you have expectation rooted in God's word, when you have a framework, tangible words for your life that are from God, then what happens is there's an aroma23:22 when you step in the room. There's a smell. The apostle Paul encourages us that you you will have a smell of life or death. And in this, there are Christians who are being23:34 persecuted. And though they have the aroma of persecution, it's an aroma that they're standing up for the faith of Jesus. But he says if you have life where you're living your faith out, then you have an aroma to share23:45 the knowledge of Jesus Christ. And so you and I have to recognize on a daily basis, our faith has a fragrance. You have a smell. Whether you have a good smell or a bad23:57 smell, that's up to you. That's how you use God's word. That's how you let it transform your life. Because as a Christian, you can have a really poor smell as well. You can have a smell that24:09 really deters people from Jesus. You can have a smell that really turns people off from the gospel. Or you can have a smell where people just can't get enough, like a cologne when you walk in a room or a24:20 perfume and everyone wants to know what the brand is. Ladies, you know that, and I know some men, some men, some of you guys don't wear cologne, you guys should, but I know I know the ladies all wear perfume. But24:31 sometimes there's nothing like a compliment when someone smells you and they say, what is that? What are you wearing? Smells so good. And you look at them and say, oh, yeah. You like that? Just something something I24:41 sprayed on. No big deal. Some I picked up and you name somewhere that they can never go, you know, to get it. Oh, just a little something something. I don't know what the name is, but it's a little something something.24:51 And in the same way, when we follow Christ, it's that same around. What? What's that smell? I can't get enough. I can't get enough of being around you. Can't get enough. And and your and the word of God is informing your25:01 faith. And then and then the and then the last point is here is, your faith has a fight. Faith is is is is is a fighting word. You see, in your walkShow more In this video 0:00 The Power of Visionary Devotions4:15 Faith: Framework, Fragrance, and Fight25:05 Practical Steps to Deepen Your Faith
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