Hi Chris Bellton here. Welcome to my podcast where I hope to inspire you to transform the world within you and transform the world around you.

I'm excited to share this message with you today. I pray the Lord ministers to you as you listen.

Hi. So good to see you and the online audience. It's so good to not see you but know that you're there with us.

Can't see you on the screen is what I mean but thanks for joining us too.

Well, I really feel like I'm carrying this whole word about being unleashed in disruption and I want to kind of do part two of that.

I'm going to pray right now. Holy Spirit, I just thank you for all of these wonderful believers and for those who are with us that don't yet believe us. Thank you that they're with us and we pray God that you would touch them deeply today.

And we pray that you'd open our hearts, our minds and our spirits to what you are doing in us and among us. Amen.

I want to talk about having faith in God and in the first service when we were worshiping I had this picture that we were standing against this wall, this block wall.

And I heard the Lord say go through the wall almost I go through the wall and I got to the wall it turned to liquid and I passed through it into another dimension.

And I began to realize that faith is taking us into another dimension and alternative reality and that we're going through we're going from faith to faith to faith to faith and glory to glory.

So like we're it's not just one wall like we're passing through every wall we pass we go deeper into faith deeper into faith and deeper into faith and I believe God's kindness to increase the size of our faith and our and the obedience of faith.

And I wanted to start out by just giving you a little overview of some things that I find concerning in myself and in believers across the world.

I believe that we you know we are called believers because we are commissioned to live by faith or saved by faith got into the kingdom by faith.

We also have to follow by faith and I think the greatest side effect of the season that we just passed out of the COVID season and all the things that we had to with our matriarch and and just there's just been a lot of things happening.

I think that the greatest side effect of the COVID season isn't the loss of smell or the lingering lingering fatigue that some of experience.

Nor is it the continued decline in economy that has virtually paralyzed for two years or a government paid people to do nothing.

I think the greatest side effect of the COVID season is that many people in fellowships got washed up on the shore of dissolution and faithfulness.

They stopped following the way and instead started falling their own way.

Consequently churches that were once full of faithful followers are too commonly reduced now to a remnant of passionate people far too many have exchanged the sacrifice of fellowship for the comfort of a risk of a risk of a riskless existence rooted in convenience and lethargic lifestyles.

The fire of faith has gone out in the eyes of them quenched by the waters of distrust and bitterness and a critical spirit.

And I say that as a warning for all of us that there is it's easy for us to be in this place and not know it.

And in 1 Timothy 1 18 I want to read you this this I command Paul writes and trust you Timothy that in accordance with the prophecies previously spoken over you that by them you would fight the good fight keeping the faith everybody say keeping the faith and a good conscience with some have rejected and suffered shipwreck in regard to their faith.

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