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Faith Is the Currency of Heaven
Faith is an international, universal currency. When I first got to Chicago, we started the ministry, and then I was going on radio. God told me to go on radio. I went down to see the radio guy at the Christian station. I said, “Okay, I'd like to have a Saturday, 15-minute broadcast.”
He said, “Okay,” so sign me up and fill out all the papers. I went back, got back to the place where we were staying, and the Spirit of God spoke to me and said, “I don’t want you to go on once a week. I want you to go on Monday through Friday.”
Man, you know, there’s no Monday-through-Friday money in the bank.
I didn’t know it, but the station manager went behind my back, talked to the lady with whom we were staying, and this is what he asked her: “Do Bill Winston ever have enough faith? Does Bill Winston have enough faith to do this? No. Does Bill Winston have enough money to do this?”
Here’s what she said: “I don’t know whether he’s got enough money, but he sure got enough faith.”
Faith is money! See? Come on now. Come on, come on. I’m taking you up where you’re supposed to operate. **Faith is money.** Come on. It’s substance. Come on. It’s a servant. Come on. It’s a master key. And it’s money.
That’s why the devil doesn’t want you to get it — because faith will either get the thing or the thing that gets the thing.
I better come over here again because I didn’t sow that. Faith will either get the thing, or the thing that gets the thing. Am I right about it?
Folks, I’ve seen faith transfer a car into my hands. Then I’ve seen faith bring the money to get the car. I’ve seen faith transfer a house into my hand. Then I’ve seen faith transfer the money to get the house. Cash.
I’m not talking about owing anybody anything. You don’t need to owe anybody. Nothing. You already own everything. You don’t need to pay for something. It’s already been paid for. The blood of Jesus paid for all of this.
I believe there’s a right bunch I’m talking to now. See, y’all still sizing it up. I watch you sizing me up, saying, “See you, man. I don’t know, Reverend.”
You need to get your head out of reasoning. Come on up there where faith is. Because it’s by faith, you understand, not by human reason.
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Faith, Family, and the Promise of Blessing
Look what he says here in the next chapter, in Psalm 128. Look at that one:
“Blessed is every one that feareth the Lord; that walketh in his ways. For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee. Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.” (Psalm 128:1–3, KJV)
Now, I had to look up “olive plants,” because it takes you really back over into Judges. But this olive plant — what does it mean? It means that your children will be children of prominence.
This is the Hebrew now, talking about olive plants. Wherever they are sent, they shall be instruments of honor. Come on. Children. Your children will command the respect of unbelievers.
Is this the right bunch I’m talking to now?
You should see your children healthy, wealthy, and sought after. People will behold their decorum, their behavior and appearance, and their progress, and want them around them.
Now, what you have to do — what did your Sister Hill do? Look at Deuteronomy chapter 30. And Brother Copeland has preached this. But I’m only telling you now that when you leave this house today, faith is going to be what you’re going to walk in.
I mean, you’re going to think faith, talk faith. I’m talking about crazy faith. Look what it says in verse 19:
“I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live.” (Deuteronomy 30:19, KJV)
Oh yeah, I understand — it’s a setup because the enemy was trying to tell you, “Oh, he’s not going to be much,” and he wants you to get your mouth the wrong way and say something like, “Well, you know, you’re going to be just like your daddy. He wasn’t never nothing.”
But that’s not going to come out of your mouth. In everything, only faith is going to come out.
Now, you might think I’m just talking, but I’m imparting something to your spirit. This is going to be a supernatural infusion of God because you and me are going to walk in the supernatural. We’re going to walk this thing out.
All right, so there’s a heritage. And I said part of that is peace. Part of your heritage is protection. I don’t care where your kids are — it doesn’t make any difference. There’s going to be a hedge round about them.
All you have to do is ask Brother Jesse Duplantis about that. When he was out there acting crazy, notice he’s with us today because he had a mother that would speak words over him. Say amen to that.
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Walking in the Supernatural
So I’m saying this whole idea about the supernatural — that God wants us now to move into this level of faith, that through faith we’re going to tap into the supernatural — and the supernatural for us is going to now be a way of life.
From this day forward, we are being elevated by God. And we are moving up to a place that all people will see that we have been called by His name. They’re going to want to be like you.
And your faith is going to feed on the impossible. I said your faith is going to feed on the impossible.
Now, this is something that God wants for our lives, because again, this unbelief has tried to make sure that everybody sinks down to the level where they feel that if medicine can’t do it, it can’t be done.
Or, “You’ve got to borrow money. How are you going to buy anything if you don’t borrow money?”
I’m telling you — you can live above all of that. I said, I’m telling you, you can live above all of that!
The world has tried to substitute theology and education instead of revelation. The world has tried to make man-made programs instead of the leading of the Holy Ghost. The world has tried to build ministries on personalities instead of power. Come on!
The world has tried to make people reason and make it replace living by faith. They’ve tried to make laws replace love. And tried to make — come on now — tried to make entertainment replace the supernatural power of God.
And I’m saying, Paul said, *“My speech and my preaching are not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in the demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that your faith will not rest in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.”* (1 Corinthians 2:4–5, KJV)
All right, now let’s keep going. You know when they call me here, you’re going somewhere. I’m telling you, I’m going to enlarge the borders of your tent. I’m going to stretch you out. You came to this convention to get something, and you ain’t leaving without it!
I said, you ain’t leaving without it!
See, I’m expecting miracles. I’m expecting miracles. I mean, while I’m speaking, I expect miracles.
I’m not looking for a bunch of people that’ll let Jesus pass by — I’m looking for people who are going to cry out, “Wait a minute, give me my stuff! I got something!”
This is the Believers’ Convention! Say amen!
And I’m not talking about no small miracles — that “my finger got fixed.” I’m talking about some miracles! I’m talking about you — you come here broke and all of a sudden, when you get ready to leave, you look in your pocket and you got a wad of money in there.
I’m talking about hundred-dollar bills! Hey! Hey! I’m pumped! See, I gotta have something! Believe it!
If we can get all of y’all to believe, we can see angels come in here. We can see the Holy Spirit do something in here.
I’m saying this is what I’m talking about — God is about to do something big in your life! It’s bigger than your head! Don’t be trying to think about it — just listen and receive it!
I said, listen and receive it! You follow what I’m saying?
Now, this is your season, and you’re not going to miss it. I said, you are not going to miss it!
We’re going to believe God that debts are going to be canceled in this meeting. We’re going to believe God. We’re going to believe God!
I’m saying that things are about to happen in your life that no man can explain. Come on! You didn’t do it. You didn’t get this off the blackboard in college. You got this from God!
Angels are in here right now. I can see them. They’re in here right now. They’re about to change your life.
Can you feel it? It is a shift going on right now. It’s life! Can you feel it? It is a shift going on right now. It’s going on right now. Oh, man, there’s a shift!
You see what God’s doing? He’s calling you out of that comfort zone. He’s calling you to expect the supernatural.
The more I talk about the supernatural, the more the supernatural is coming alive in you.
Get ready, get ready, get ready, get ready — get ready!
Now. Now. Sit down. I gotta finish — gotta finish now. I gotta finish this.
Yeah, doc, we didn’t come here to go back like we came. Now, I don’t know about you. I said, I don’t know about you. I prayed. I said, “Lord, let this be the best conference that they’ve ever had — that You ever had.”
All right. That’s all right. Let him go. Sit down. He’s just excited. Sit down. Oh, we’re going to turn it loose, the church. Come on!
We gotta put a difference between us and the world.
Now just go here. Don’t you want to go back this way? Go on back this way. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Praise — Hail! Praise God!
Y’all knew what y’all were going to get when I came. You may as well get excited because God’s about to come into your house!
I said, He’s coming to your house. Come on! The FedEx truck — the FedEx truck is going to pull up to your house! Come on, come on, because your post office box came home!
What God is about to do for you — you need the FedEx truck.
That’s why He called me here — because I’m going to get you stirred up. God is no respecter of persons. What He did for me, He’s going to do for you.
If He showed up at my house, He’s going to show up in your house. He’s going to show up at your house.
All right. Let me sit down. Let me just finish this.
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According to Your Faith
This is Matthew chapter 9, and verse 27. Are you there? I said, are you there?
In verse 27:
“And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him, crying and saying, Thou Son of David, have mercy on us. And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him, and Jesus saith unto them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said unto him, Yea, Lord. Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you. And their eyes were opened; and Jesus straitly charged them, saying, See that no man know it.” (Matthew 9:27–30, KJV)
But they went and blabbed it everywhere.
Are you ready? I said, are you ready?
The Bible says in Romans — Romans chapter 12 and verse 3 —
“For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.” (Romans 12:3, KJV)
That means He gave Bill Winston the same amount that He gave you. Say amen to this.
And it’s God’s faith. I said, it’s God’s faith. So you’ve got God’s faith!
Now notice what He asked them — “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” Faith activates the ability of God.
So Jesus said this in John chapter 14, and verse 10:
“Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.”
That’s what Jesus said.
So then He went to verse 12 and said,
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.” (John 14:10,12, KJV)
Now, who’s doing the work? The Father!
See, the Book of Acts is about the Acts of the Holy Ghost — it’s God doing the works.
And I’m telling you, if God’s doing the works, then He can work for a twelve-year-old just like He can work for a hundred-and-twenty-year-old.
Because you don’t have to do it. It’s no longer you trying to lift up something — it’s you speaking something, it’s you believing something, and God’s going to lift it up!
Now, do you believe that He’s able to pay off your debts — this week?
You see what’s happened? First place, we kind of backed off, and somehow we thought we had to do it. He said, *“It’s according to your faith.”* See? It’s your faith that did it.
When the lady used her faith and touched His garment, notice what happened — virtue flowed, power flowed. Whose power was it? God’s power.
What drove it out of her body? God’s power. Wait — wait a minute. Faith connected with God’s power, and power drove it out of her body.
Now, we give the credit to faith — because if she didn’t have any faith, God’s power wouldn’t move.
And I’m telling you — God’s going to do your work. He’s leading you into the impossible on purpose, because He wants to show you who He is in your life.
What has happened is, when we get ashamed of the Gospel, we don’t want to step out that far. We don’t want to say that much. We don’t want to declare that, because it may not happen.
No! No! No! No! He that believeth on Him will not be ashamed.
He said, *“Let God be true, and every man a liar.”* (Romans 3:4, KJV)
I know the professionals have got their understanding of things, but they’re on a fallen-man level. You’re going up to the truth.
The truth is — by His stripes!
Faith in the Family: A Living Testimony
All right, so what happened? Here’s my son. He said, “Dad, I’m sixteen now. I got my license. I’d like to have a car.”
I said, “Well, that’s beautiful. I’d like for you to have one. That’s just great. That’s a good thought.”
What was he saying? He said, “Okay.” Now, he wasn’t looking for me to buy it — he was looking for authorization to use his faith.
So what did he do? He took it, sowed a seed.
But a few days later, I get a call. My secretary said, “Pastor, are you anywhere near the church?”
I said, “Yeah, I’m not far.”
She said, “There’s a family up here. They want to sow a seed in your life. They’re believing for something, and they came as a family to sow the seed.”
I said, “Okay.” I stopped by — they came, they sowed a seed, and it’s in an envelope. You can tell when some money’s in it, you know. And I prayed over it. Boom — they left.
I was going home, kind of minding my own business, kind of whistling. And something said, “That’s not your money.”
I wanted to say, “Get thee behind me, whoever that is.”
What happened? I said, “Whose is it?”
It said, “David’s. That’s the harvest off his seed.”
Got home. Opened it up. Fifteen thousand dollars.
Took him down there and got a car — cash on the title.
Wait a minute — why? Did he ask my permission? Because he’s under my authority.
In the Kingdom, there is order. You hear what I’m saying?
The boy that gave the two fish and five loaves — let’s say he was twelve — he’s got the same faith as you’ve got.
Folks, in these last days, we’re going to see kids laying hands on the sick.
I’m done. Give God praise!
❓Questions This Sermon Answers:
1. How is faith a “universal currency” in the Kingdom of God?
2. Why does the devil fear believers who truly understand faith?
3. What does the Bible promise about children of faith-filled parents?
4. How can we move from human reasoning to supernatural living?
5. What happens when our faith connects with God’s power?
6. How does obedience and spiritual order release miracles?
7. Why is God calling believers to expect and live in the supernatural today?
