BY FAITH WE UNDERSTAND: 1 Now faith is the substance of
things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
FAITH AT THE DAWN OF HISTORY:
:6 But without FAITH it is impossible to please Him, for he
who comes to God must believe that HE is, and that HE is a
rewarder of those who diligently seek HIM.
:7 By FAITH Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet
seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving
of his household, by which he condemned the world and be
came heir of the righteousness which is according to FAITH.
a.Faithful Abraham
b.Faithful Sarah
c. The Heavenly Hope -not received promises here,
but they desire a heavenly country….God has prepared a
city for them.
d.Faith of the Patriarchs; Abraham, Issac, Jacob,
Joseph
e.Faithful Moses
f. By Faith They Overcame
THE RACE OF FAITH: 12:1 …run with endurance…
12:7 If you endure chastening, God deals with you as
with sons;
12: 12-17 Renew Your Spiritual Vitality 

PENTECOST SUNDAY

50 DAYS FROM DEATH/RESURRECTION OF
JESUS ON THE CROSS TO the DAY OF
PENTECOST IN THE UPPER ROOM
(Jesus died ; upper room = 50 days)
Pentecost means 50.
Pentecost is 50 days from Jesus death to ALL
in the Upper Room being filled with Holy Spirit.
And each spoke in other tongues as the Spirit
gave them utterance.                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Pentecost is celebrated on the seventh Sunday
after Resurrection Sunday /Easter (which is
also fifty (50) days after Resurrection
Sunday/Easter). Since its date depends on the
date of Resurrection Sunday/Easter,
Pentecost is a moveable feast, that is, the date
is not fixed. Resurrection Sunday/Easter + 49
days.
Pentecost Sunday also represents releasing of
Holy Spirit in power and demonstration. Acts
2:43 Then fear [awe, reverence] came upon
every soul, and many wonders and signs were
done through the apostles.
This would be a great time to gather with like-
minded Christians and allow Holy Spirit to be
invited into the group. Then wait and see what
He does, or what He wants done. He is never
dull or boring. He is always ready to release
what Father God wants done to those seeking
Him.

MARY (mother of Jesus) was an original pentecostal.
MARY, the mother of Jesus, was a powerful woman who
found great favor with God and was chosen to give birth to
the Long-awaited Messiah. Luke 1:26…
MARY was receptive to Word of God delivered by the
angel. MARY said, “Behold the maidservant of the Lord!
Let it be to me according to your word.” LUKE 1:38
(maidservant = servant, slave). [sometimes God tells us to
do something and we ask “how”. Jeremiah 33:3 says, “call
out to me and I will show you great; mighty things]                                                                                                                                                                                      MARY had been watched by God. He knew her
submissive, faithful heart; she walked in holiness. MARY
found favor in the eyes of God.
MARY was with Jesus all through His ministry, at the
Cross, and with Him after His resurrection. She was also
present in the upper room (Act 1:14)on the day of
Pentecost, making her one of the original Pentecostals
who received the baptism in the Holy Spirit. ACTS 2:1-4
MARY, being Jesus’ mother endured sweet and hard times
during his ministry on this earth. What a great example
she left for anyone wanting to be obedient to God with a
submissive heart.

And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and
preach the gospel to every creature. . . And these
signs shall follow them that believe; In my name . . .
they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover
—-MARK 16:15,17,18
Let’s stop and analyze something here: Which of the sick
did Jesus say we were to lay hands on?
Jesus just said “the sick” —- period.
Then, if God were the author of sickness—-if God did
put sickness and disease on people —- if it were the
will of God for some to be sick —- this statement
would be confusing. Because in it, Jesus authorized
us to lay hands on ALL sick.
If God weren’t in the healing business, Jesus would
have had to say something like, “Lay your hands on
those that it is the will of God to heal, and they shall
recover.
But, no! God set the Church against sickness - period!
Confession: God is in the healing business. God is not in
the sickness business. God is in the delivering business.
God is not in the bondage business. I refuse to allow the
enemy to try to get me to accept sickness or bondage as
being from God. Satan is the author of sickness. God has
set me against sickness.

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against
principalities, against powers, against the ruler of the
darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in
high places. EPHESIANS 6:12                                                                                                                                                                                                                      WE are called upon to bind unseen forces. We have
authority over the devil and evil spirits. But we do not
have authority over men or their wills.
Story by Hagin: He and a pastor friend were at a
conference in California. The man had diabetes, and
he had to check his urine every morning for sugar
content to see how much insulin he would need for his
daily injection.
Hagin told him, “You won’t register any sugar as long
as you’re with me.” He looked at me as if he didn’t
believe him, but in the almost two weeks he was with
me, he never registered any sugar, even though he ate
pies and cakes. He later told me he was home for
three days before he registered sugar again.
Why? I took authority over his sickness. I had control
over unseen forces, but I didn’t have control over his
will. As long as he was with me, and this unseen force
was in my presence, I could control it, I tried to
convince him he could do the same thing, but he
expected it to come back, and it did.
Confession: I have authority over all unseen forces in
my realm of domain. And I bind them and stop their
activity in Jesus’ Name
YOU HAVE AUTHORITY OVER UNSEEN FORCES!

Read 1 Corinthians 15: 55-58

Easter is a season of great gladness for those who
know Christ. But for those who are without “the light
of the knowledge of God’s glory” (2 Corinthians 4:6),
there is nothing to rejoice over. Jesus left us with the
great hope and certainty that He is going to return to
bring a new Heaven and a new earth where, we are
told, there will be no more sorrow, trouble, or death for
those who have believed and followed Him. There will
be trouble, sorrow, and suffering for those who have
neglected or rejected Him. *As Christians, our great
task is to obey the command to tell the whole world
about Christ crucified, buried, yet risen again. My
prayer for you during this season of the year, when we
meditate on our Savior’s great sacrifice for us on the
cross, is that you will be filled with great peace and
hope, because “He is risen!” That is the Good News.
As you follow Christ, are you obeying His command
to tell others that He is risen indeed?                                                                                                                                                                                          Are you sure of Are you sure of your salvation?  Commit your life to
Christ today. BY BILLY GRAHAM

PASSOVER NUGGETS
*PESACH OR PASSOVER - annual weeklong festival
celebrating Jewish people from slavery (in ancient Egypt)
*PESACH means “to passover” because the plague in Egypt
that killed all first-borns passed over the Israelites’ homes,
sparing the lives of their children.                                                                                                                                                                                                      *passover dates Hebrew calendar month of Nissan 15-22
*passover dates GREGORIAN calendar April 5-April 13
Nissan 14 day of the “passover”, lamb slaughtered and
blood put on doorpost.
Nissan 15 (beginning of 7 day Festival of Unleavened Bread,
now known as PASSOVER)-at sundown the cooked lamb
and unleavened bread was eaten.
SEDER MEAL, seder means “order” The experience of the
Exodus is told in story, song, prayer, and the tasting of
symbolic food. The Seder meals include 4 cups of wine,
eating matzah, and bitter herbs, and retelling the sorry of
the Exodus.
KEEP OLD LEAVEN OUT OF YOUR NEW LIFE
I Corinthians 5: 6-8
:6 Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little
leaven leaveneth (ruins) the whole lump?
:7Purge out therefore the old leaven, that you may be a
new lump, as you are unleavened. For Christ our passover
is sacrificed for us;
:8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven,
neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with
the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

The Plan of The Spirit
[God] has saved us and called us with a holy calling,
not according to our works, but according to His own
purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus
before time began, but has now been revealed by the
appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who has abolished
death and brought life and immorality to light through the
gospel. (2 Timothy 1:9-10) We are saved, called with a holy calling—called to be
saints, holy, pure, Godlike, sons with power. It has been a
long time now since the debt of sin was settled, our
redemption was secured, and death was abolished.
Mortality is a hinderance, but death no longer has
power. Sin no longer has dominion.
You reign in Christ; you appropriate His finished
work.
Don’t groan and travail for a week if you are in need;
“only believe” (Mark 5:36). Don’t fight to get some special
thing. “only believe.” It is according to your faith that you
will receive (Matt 9:29).
God blesses you with faith. “Have faith in God.”
(Mark11:22)
If you are free in God, believe, and it will come to
pass.
If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things
that are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of
God.” (Col. 3:1)
I am seated with Him in heavenly places (Eph 2:6).
God credits me with righteousness through faith in Christ
(Rom. 4:5), and I believe Him.                                                                                                                                                                                                      Why should we doubt? Glory to God! Thank You
Jesus for our measure of faith!

Once, God spoke to an Australian pastor and said,
“You’re believing Me for only the tithe of what I want
to give you.” He was surprised because he had
thousand-dollar faith. When I arrived at his place to
preach ,the Lord told me to raise $10,000. For him. He
had a campground and men available to build on it,                                                                                                                                                                                    but the had no materials for doing the building. God
wanted to give him $10,000., and his faith had been for
$1,000.
I believe that most of us are in this same condition. WE
have limited God by our limited vision. Let your FAITH
be a growing FAITH, an ever expanding FAITH.
There is nothing wrong in believing for groceries,
gas bill, but you must set your sights higher. You must
begin to believe God for nations and peoples. . . . If you
spend all your time praying for the necessities of life,
you will never have enough FAITH to reach out to
hurting and suffering people around the world. Lift
your sights, and let God increase your FAITH.
We must believe God for television programs and
missionary outreaches, so please don’t spend all your
time praying fo the mundane things of life. And how
can you get away from that isolation? Begin praying
for others, trusting God that as you concern yourself
for them, He will take care of you.
Pray for your church and your pastor. Pray for
the ministers of America. Pray for the churches of the
world. If you’ll get this increased vision, you’ll never
again have to worry about the light bill, the grocery bill,
and the car payment. Your FAITH will have risen to a
new height in God and will be producing much more
than you need for yourself.

Short Story by Smith Wigglesworth
In Switzerland in a house meeting Smith and his
friends prayed for people and had seen their healings
manifested. After they left the house someone told him
a blind man was there and heard everything that was
said, but he was not prayed for. The man said he
would not leave the house until he was prayed for.                                                                                                                                                                                     He was born blind. Smith thought that was unique and he
turned around and went back to the house.
Smith anointed him, then laid hands on his eyes,
prayed for him, and immediately God gave this man his
sight.
The man counted all the lights in the room, then
took his watch out of his pocket that had raised hands
on it so he could tell the time. Now he only had to look
at it. The ecstatic pleasure that man experienced
because he had received his eyesight!
Smith and the others with joy, wept and danced
and shouted. Then the man realized he had never seen
his mother or father. He ran out of the house to go
home. That night the man was the first one back to the
house meeting. Everyone knew him as the “blind
man.” He shared his story of his sight.
Beloved, I wonder how much you want to take
away today. You could not carry it if it were an actual
substance. BUT THERE IS SOMETHING ABOUT THE
GRACE AND THE POWER AND THE BLESSINGS OF GOD
THAT CAN CARRIED, NO MATTER HOW BIG THEY ARE!
OH, WHAT A SAVIOR! What a place we are in by grace,
that He may come in and commune with us.
HE is willing to say to every heart, “peace be still”
(Mark 4:39), and to every weak body, “be strong.”
Are you going halfway, or are you going right
to the end? Do not be deceived today by Satan,
but BELIEVE GOD.