Faith Producers International Podcast

THE TWO MOST INFLUENTIAL MEN IN HISTORY   If you said Adam and Jesus, you are absolutely right. The axis of human history pivots on both of these men. Both of them were given a covenant with a command and a promise.  In Genesis 1:26 and 27, God said, let us make man in our image and give them rulership authority over the creation. IN LUKE 418, JESUS SAID THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS UPON ME BECAUSE HE HAS ANOINTED ME TO PREACH THE GOSPEL TO THE POOR. HE HAS SENT ME TO HEAL THE BROKENHEARTED TO PREACH DELIVERANCE TO THE CAPTIVES, AND RECOVERING OF SIGHT TO THE BLIND, TO SET AT LIBERTY THEM THAT ARE BRUISED TO PREACH THE ACCEPTABLE YEAR OF THE LORD. The entire world was subject to sin when Adam committed high treason against God and was driven from the garden. The virus of sin affected every human because they were affected by the virus of disobedience. The reason Jesus is referred to as the second Adam is because he was sent to, first of all, fulfill what Adam did not finish. When Jesus was on the cross and said,

WHY DO WE PARTAKE OF THE BODY AND BLOOD OF JESUS?   For those of us who have been longtime members of the community of faith, we understand the terms, the Lord's table, and communion. This practice has continued as long as the church has been functioning since the ascension of Jesus Christ. On the final night Jesus was with his disciples, he ate bread with them and commissioned them to eat his body and drink his blood. It's no wonder that in the areas where Christianity functions, they called them cannibals, assuming they were drinking blood and eating human flesh. I have participated in the communion ceremony hundreds of times over my life, yet each time I open up my spirit to this subject, I hear and receive more revelation. Take some time to read again John six, starting with the 51st verse. Then add to your reading First Corinthians 11, 23, to the end of the chapter. I am convinced that if you do, the spirit of revelation will open up some incredible new insight into what Jesus meant when he said, unless

JUDGMENT, WRATH, AND SEPARATION HAVE BEEN TAUGHT-YET JESUS REUNITED US AT THE CROSS    Where did the statement come from that reflects the attitude of too many people worldwide? "Hellfire and brimstone." If you were raised in most churches in the last century, you would know exactly where that came from. The picture of God came across the pulpits of our Christian world. Too many of us got saved because we didn't want to go to hell. Many more of us stayed away from the off-limits that the church had set for us because we didn't want God to cut us out of the family again. If you think that's extreme, then you're blessed. Religion of any kind that has been altered by man's idea of who God is puts on a burden that no one can carry for a long. As one raised in the church, I could say that I knew more about sermons on backsliding than sermons on who I was in Christ and overcoming. However, gradually, God begins to crack open the revelation of his Grace to us. As the generations matured, he revealed himself even mor

YOU ARE THE GREATEST IDEA GOD EVER HAD   Recently, on one of my ministry trips, I was in a house with corroded water pipes. You could taste it when you took a drink and often see the results in the glass. To solve the problem, we purchased a container with a filter so that when we drank our water, it was pure again. The Scriptures that are contained in our modern Bibles are referred to as the water of life. Unfortunately, those scriptures have come to us through vessels, i.e., pipelines, that can be contaminated by human reasoning and religion. The result has produced generations of Christians who only see God and the work of the cross through the filter of other men's opinions instead of the spirit of revelation. The result is that generations of believing Christians have a skewed picture of who they are in Christ and who God is as their Father. The emphasis of sin in the human race has been magnified to a place where its indelibility stained the believer, even after conversion.  Our Western theology repeate

MERCY IS OUR NEW CURRENCY-MERCY TRIUMPHS OVER JUDGMENT   I've got a question for you today. Why is it that a majority of the church seems to be so anxious for us to get out of here and go to heaven? When challenges come and bad things happen, outcomes the dusty sermons on the end of the EarthEarth, the coming of the lord, and the rapture. It's starting to pop up on the Internet again; prominent speakers in the nation are predicting the end of time and the church. They revive all the text proofs that have convinced them that there's no hope for us, so let's leave quickly. One of the advantages of hanging around for a while, as I have, is to witness this cycle many times in the last several decades. The antichrist has come and gone dozens of times since I was a kid. Yet here we are still, planting seeds and harvesting men and women with the gospel of Christ. What did David do when he showed up at the battlefield when Goliath had Israel hiding in caves? Did he say all is lost? Let's give up and die. No, he did n

THE BIBLE IS NOT THE MEAL IT'S THE MENU   A few days ago, on this program, I talked about looking through my old Bibles and being inspired by the notes I made in the flyleaf. In doing that program, I took a picture of 17 Bibles I've managed to keep from the 65 years I've been active in the ministry. Many of them are worn out, and pages are falling apart—some I set aside for a different translation.  I love the Bible. It is the foundation of our Christian life in our relationship with God. However, somewhere along the journey, I discovered that the Bible was not the meal but the menu. The Bible is a dead book without God's spirit involved as you read and meditate. The Scriptures tell us that the letter kills us, but the spirit makes us alive. Professors worldwide in various universities and higher learning centers teach the Bible through the eyes of the unconverted. To those professors, it is history or poetry, and most of it isn't very clear to them. Unfortunately, too many Christians read the Bible in somewh

WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF PROPHECY?   Questions abound both in the church and outside of the church. What is the purpose of prophecy, some ask? Oddly enough, there seems to be more of an openness to the spiritual world, such as prophecy, than there is in the broad church itself. For those outside of the church, prophecy has another name; some call it terret cards. Another name would be Ouija board or a séance. All of these have to do with the occult world. However, the underlying attraction to this is a desire to look into the spiritual world and see what's coming down the road. Have you ever wondered why the human race desires to look into the spiritual? Every tribe and group of people in history has always had something spiritual that they looked into. They do because we have all come out of the bosom of God the Father and desire to return to where we came from: the spiritual world. When Jesus entered the human race, he came to reveal the Father and to show the world where the human race came from and where th

DARKNESS IS NOT A FORCE-IT'S THE ABSENCE OF LIGHT   Do a simple experiment with me. Go into a dark room and find the light switch. Now, Flip the switch and listen closely. Did you hear any resistance, any voices saying I am not leaving this time? No, you didn't. Because darkness is not a force, it's just the absence of light. Light has always been the dominant force since God pronounced it with his very voice. He said in Genesis One let light be, and light has been the dominant force ever since. Matthew's fourth chapter tells us that those who sat in darkness saw a great light when Jesus came into the world. Light constantly expels darkness. It's not unusual to hear teachers and authors magnifying the power of the devil and darkness to the degree that it overcomes light. Despite how the teacher and author intended that result, it still affects those who take it in. The record of Jesus's death and resurrection is well-established. The testimony of why he came to this earth to deal with death, sin, and separati

SPIRITUAL ADRENALINE   The starting gun fires with a bang, and 12 runners leap into the race. Plans have been made and carried out for years so that each individual here would be in this contest. Practice and practice again until the body is ready to run the race to win. After all that has been done to prepare, there's just one thing missing: an ingredient that will give them the ability to succeed. The missing ingredient is adrenaline. Adrenaline in the natural body is held in reserve until it is needed. The term that is used is "fight or flight." Both of those things need adrenaline to make it happen. That mysterious ingredient in the body kicked in when the gun went off, and the muscles fired off with superpower. So it is in the spiritual world and the life that you live as a son of God. It's called spiritual adrenaline. Jesus said to his disciples that they would receive power after the Holy Ghost came upon them. ( ACTS 1:8) that power is God's spiritual adrenaline called the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit

TREASURED NOTES FROM MY OLD BIBLES   Walking with the Father through the life he has given us is a hoot. There's never a dull moment. I've discovered over these decades that I have enjoyed his fellowship and that he is a happy God. Some traditional theology has tried to convince the church that he is mad half the time, looking for something to crush us with. Nothing could ever be farther from the truth. The key verse that shows his attitude toward those he has created is John 3:16. Why would God start loving the world so much that he gave his son as a sacrifice and yet end up trying to find ways to destroy us? The fact is he is a happy God and loves to have fun with his children. Yesterday the Father said to me, let's have some fun. I want you to collect all of your old Bibles and go through the notes you wrote to yourself on the flyleafs because I want to speak to you from the past. OK, if you say so, Lord.  So I collected 17 of my old Bibles, the ones I could find on my shelf.  My sisters, who were evangeli

MANIFESTING YOUR HIDDEN TREASURE   The history of mankind is filled with stories of hidden treasures and the mysteries behind them. Even the mention of hidden treasure stirs something in the hearts of most of us. In every age, someone was searching for the secrets of those rich treasures buried somewhere on the map. From the supposed buried treasures of the Pirates to the rumors of Gold buried in the hills of Arizona. The thought of it drove men crazy, even to the point of giving their lives trying to find secret riches. The apostle Paul talks about a hidden treasure placed within you, and I called Christ himself or the light—second Corinthians. 4:5 gives us an insight into the meaning of that treasure called the light of God. Verse 6 tells us it was hidden there all the time. In Galatians 4:19, the apostle Paul describes a two-tier approach to the maturing of those he described as his spiritual children. First of all, he said that he birthed them through his gospel. The second thing he did, which is equally

THE SEED IS IN THE GROUND   I love to chew on the word of God. After all, it's referred to as milk, bread and meat. Those are natural things that provide nourishment and give us life-giving energy. So because the word of God is referred to as milk, bread, and meat, we can be assured that if we eat and digest the word of God in our spirit, it will give us life-giving strength. It's promised to give us life forevermore—eternal life. With that in mind, let me ask you a question. Have you taken a scripture lately or perhaps a series of scriptures and meditated upon them until it went from milk to meat? That particular pattern of studying is not only experienced by "super spiritual" people; it's meant for all believers to experience. Here's a scripture to consider meditating upon and asking the Holy Spirit for revelation. Ecclesiastes 12: 6-7. Today, in the video, I want to talk about the seeds God has planted in his excellent ground. There are two parables that Jesus gave us that are well known for teaching about

THE PURPOSE OF OUR DREAM LIFE   If you have been in the Christian World very long, you have no doubt heard someone make this comment about dreams. "Well, dearie, that's just too much pizza before you go to bed." That limited understanding of the Spirit World has caused the church to be so far behind in its revelation of how God speaks and deals with us. Dreams and visions are a serious part of God's tools for guiding and directing his children. As we journey through this experience we are having on Earth. When they are ignored or slandered, it puts blinders on the body of Christ to see their future and to have timely and clear directions from the Holy Spirit. Take note of these simple facts about dreams and visions connected to the scriptures and the human race. Every one of us experiences one to three hours of dream time every night. Just because you don't remember doesn't mean you're not experiencing it. We spent 3 to 10 years of our life dreaming. At 70 years of age, you have dreamed 76,650 hours. At 80 ye

THE OPEN DOOR TO HEAVENLY PLACES The mission that Jesus was assigned to by the Father when he came to earth had many dimensions. His mission was not just to die on the cross and rise from the dead. It was the first to fulfill the Old Testament covenant that Adam failed in. His earthly ministry reflected the fulfillment of the covenant that Adam had received from the Lord. That's what Jesus meant while hanging on the cross when he said, "It is finished. " Adam was given dominion and rule over the earthly things. He was to dominate, cultivate, and fill the earth with people like himself. When Jesus came as the second Adam, everything he did was under that covenant. He was not functioning as God. He was serving as a man following and faithful to his Father.  When he challenged us to pick up the mantle of faith and do greater things than he did, it was because we have the same connection to his Father. We were born of the same Father, with the same DNA and commission. When Jesus said he was "the way, the truth, a

JUST IMAGINE THAT Your imagination is like clay; reform it. There is a mysterious Scripture in the book of Genesis concerning the tower of Babel. God said that if he left these people to their own doing, they could imagine anything and do it. To understand that is so far beyond our comprehension in the natural mind that we miss the power of it. The imagination is the seedbed for thoughts and actions. Things we end up doing start in that seedbed and grow into giant trees. Our life's good, bad, and ugly originate in our thought patterns. One of the potent purposes of meditation that is lost to the Western culture is the result of thinking by letting your imagination develop and grow. The great discoveries, inventions, and technological wonders come from someone's imagination. The same day the dreamer came up with the printing press or the television, someone else came up with evil deeds and desperate thoughts. Jesus warned us to take no thought and say the things that would harm us. The Scriptures also tell us

BE CAREFUL LITTLE EARS WHAT YOU HEAR   Jesus made a curious statement when he spoke to those around him. He said “he's that has ears to hear let him hear.” That's a very odd statement when we know that everyone generally has ears and they do already hear. This can only mean there is a spiritual ear that needs to be open so that we can hear spiritual truth. We can call that ear faith in God. The scripture tells us that if we come to God, we must believe that he is, and that he is the rewarder of those that diligently seek him. However, this is the challenge we face. Who are we listening to today? Where do we get our news from? The scriptures tell us, we are built up by our words, and our faith increases. That would also mean that we are tore down by words and faith is removed, and doubt takes over. What kind of company do we keep? First Corinthians 15:33 tells us that bad company corrupts good morals. How does that work? Because whoever you hang around, will influence you because of the conversations that you

GIANTS DON'T GO AWAY ON THEIR OWN-YOU MUST CHALLENGE THEM Giants and other troublemakers that come along in our lives don't leave on their own; they must be challenged. When young David went to the battlefield, bringing food for his brothers, he encountered an odd scene in front of him. On one side of the valley, a massive man named Goliath had been there for over a month, shouting insults at the army of Israel. David also noticed, to his dismay, that the army of Israel was hiding in caves, afraid to come out and face the giant. God has been preparing David for giant killing without David's knowledge. His preparation was his encounter with a lion and a bear. Both of these obstacles in his life had to be faced before they were dismissed. (That's a nice word for killed and destroyed.)  David did several things that set him on his pathway that led to the throne of Israel.  First of all, he refused to use the weapons of natural man. That would be Saul's armor. The next thing he did was prepare his weapons of warf

THE OLD ACCOUNT WAS SETTLED A wind blew through my spirit today, bringing this song to my mind. It's one of the songs we sang from a familiar hymnal in our Pentecostal church services. Let me quote a few lines for you. Verse one, "There was a time on earth, when, in the book of heaven, an old account was standing for sins yet unforgiven. My name was at the top, and many things were below. I went onto the keeper and settled long ago. Verse two The old account was large and growing every day, for I was always sinning and never tried to pay, but when I looked ahead and such pain and woe, I said that I would settle. I settled long ago. First three When at the judgment bar, I stand before my king, and he the book will open. If he cannot find the thing, then will my heart be glad while tears of joy will flow because I had it settled and settled long ago. First four When in that happy home, my savior's home above, I'll sing the redemption story and praise him for his love. I will not forget that book with pages whit

WHEN YOU PLANT YOUR SEED FOR HARVEST, PLANT THE BEST A repeated phrase from the early computer days expressed how the system worked. GARBAGE IN, GARBAGE OUT! Anyone who understands how the computer works knows that it is true. This is why someone who inputs data gets paid so generously. The success of the whole system depends on accurate, reliable information going in if you expect to get the same coming back to you. This whole idea is much larger than the mechanics of a computer on the Internet. It's the pattern of life itself. The reason for that is that is the way God set it up.  The Scriptures tell us, "If you want to have friends, show yourself friendly." They also tell us, "Give, and it shall be given to you press down, shaken together and running over will men get back to you?" We can also include the familiar verse, "according to your faith, so be it up to you." Then faith is likened to a seed that you plant. Jesus told us there was a category of faith. To one group, he said, "Oh, you a little faith."

THE ANGEL CALLED TRUMPETER In the remaining hours of 2014, the Spirit of God spoke to me concerning the new year I was facing. The words 12 - 12 -12 were dropped into my spirit, and I asked What do you mean by that, father? He said I will introduce to you 12 angels and 12 keys that were released, 12 miracles for this new year. As you may imagine, I was all ears, and my spirit was tuned in and ready to receive. Through 2015, it was a wild ride of Faith to believe the word that God had given me. Each of those months, around the clock, struck 12, a new Angel would come and introduce himself to me. The August Angel's name was Trumpeter. As we communicated throughout August, I discovered why the father sent him into my life. (I found he had been with me since childhood, preparing for the ministry God had designed for my life.) One of the things that he was designed to do was blow the trumpet when he prophesied over someone or to a congregation. I discovered that the blowing of the trumpet did something to the prop