Faith Dominates Time

Faith Dominates TimeGenesis 1:14, And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night…

We must understand that time was created by light and that light rules over time. God is light. We are to take the word of Light and rule time. Through faith we understand that all things were make by the word of Light. When man fell, he fell under the dominion of time. He fell below the word of Light. Before the fall, man dominated all things created including time with the word of Light. Faith comes by the word of Light, therefore, faith travels at the speed of light. This is why faith brings instant results. It travels at the speed of God. Time has a beginning and an end.   Time does not govern the spiritual or eternal realm. Everything in the eternal realm is always NOW.

This is why Hebrews 11:1 states that Now faith is. As you study Hebrews Chapter 11 you will see how time is dominated by faith. Verse 5 states that by faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death. Enoch stepped over into the spiritual or eternal realm where time is not. He by passed death. He received the end of his faith.

In verse 11 we see Sarah through faith receiving strength to deliver a child in her old age. Her faith went back in time a made her body young.

Hebrews 11:11, Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.

Verse 20 states that by faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.   Faith is not dominated by time but rather dominates time. Time is temporal and faith is eternal. Eternal things always dominate that which is temporal. Time is temporal.

Let’s look at another example of faith dominating time when Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead.

John 11: 23-25, Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again.
24 Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.
25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?

Martha said I know my brother shall rise again at the last day. Jesus said if you believe, your brother shall rise today.

What is going to happen at the last day? The dead in Christ shall rise. Time has no dominion on immortality. Faith overrides time, NOW. Jesus said, I am the resurrection, not I shall be the resurrection in the last day. The only reason time dominated man was because of death, Adam’s sin.                      Jesus was not effected by Adams sin.   Therefore He could dominate time. When death was taken out of the way at the resurrection of Jesus, time lost its domination over man.   Now every man can dominate time in the same manner that Jesus did while He was on the earth.

Faith supersedes death.   If it did not, no man could be raised from the dead. It did for Enoch and it will for you. 26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this? I challenge you to believe it!

Let’s look at another scripture of faith redeeming time. Psalm 103.5, Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

So what is man’s problem? It is unbelief and the traditions of men. Men preach the same things in the word of God over and over and can go no higher.

God said, I will do a new thing. It shall spring forth. Shall you not know it? Jesus said whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this? Enoch believed it. Praise God. You mean to tell me that God is a respecter of persons and only Enoch can have this. God forbid! God takes no greater joy than finding His children in faith.   Jesus asked the question before He left. When I come shall I find faith on the earth?

Luke 18:8 …Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?

Some people place more faith in death than they do life. Faith in death is called fear. All of their lifetime they are in bondage subject unto death. They prepare for it. They expect it and the get exactly what they believe.

What would happen if these same people put as much faith in life? What if they spent as much time preparing for life by studying God’s word and praying in the spirit and in communion with the Holy Spirit?

Why, they would step over into eternal life. Jesus said that he that loves his life will loose it, but he that hates his life shall find it. What does He mean? He that is trying to provide for his self will loose God’s provision, but he that casts his care over on God will find life’s provision.

Man has been programmed from youth to become subject to time. We believe God to have our bills paid on time. What are we doing? We are expecting God to met our needs according to this physical realm and not from the super natural realm that supersedes time.

When we take a trip, we estimate before we start how long it will take to arrive at the destination. Our Father travels at the speed of light. Faith travels at the speed of light. Jesus came to bring us back up to His speed. It is lodged in our thinking that we must wait on good things to come to pass in our lives, that we cannot have them now. Faith says that you can have them now.   God is not holding out on us. He is moved by faith, which travels at His speed.

We have been taught that there is seed, time and then harvest and this is true in the natural.

But we must also understand that Jesus moved in the supernatural in his ministry. He was not dominated by time. He walked in the fullness of time that when He spoke, something happened immediately. His words overrode time. Time was not lodged in his thinking. He came from a kingdom where there is no time and showed us how to live His way in the earth.

We think that time and patience go together like hand and glove. This is not true with faith. We have been taught to not despise small beginnings because the latter end shall be great increase. Our minds have placed a large time gap between the beginning and the end of a thing. Faith says No. I have the end from the beginning. I do not have to wait for time to run its natural course to harvest.

Because of this error in our thinking concerning time, The Body of Christ has set itself back centuries in our progress of the gospel. We have been waiting on God and He is waiting on us. It does not take twenty years to grow up in Christ so we can receive as a man.

As a matter of fact we are now living in the days of Amos 9:13, which states that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed.   The sower and reaper are in the fields together.

The Apostle Peter gives us a glance of heaven and earth concerning time. He states that a day is as a thousand years and a thousand years is a day with the Lord. God has given every man the measure of faith to close the gap, to make a thousand years as one day.

If evangelism continues at its present rate Jesus cannot return for centuries. But praise God there are men and women that God is raising up that are being taught how to close the gap with their faith. The days of toiling to get people into the kingdom of God are over.

We now stand at the edge of a great harvest. We do not have to wait any longer. The fields are white to harvest now. Let’s look a John 4:34-38.

John 4:34-38, Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
35 Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.
36 And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.
37 And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.
I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.

We are the ones that are to finish the work of Jesus. The toil of labor is over. We are now to gather the harvest. Other men labored for us to come in at the appointed time and gather God’s harvest.

The sower and the reaper are in the fields together, rejoicing over eternal life. Faith has closed the gap. Harvest comes as soon as the seed is sown.

If the body of Christ believes this we need to get busy building more barns and enlarge our tent for the harvest as the prophet Isaiah stated. We are going to need cities to house God’s harvest as in the days of Joseph.

Isaiah 54:1-3, Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.
2 Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;
3 For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.

Did you see what Isaiah said? Babies are going to be born so fast into the kingdom of God that there will be no travailing time. The Gentiles are coming in and the desolate cities will be inhabited. This sounds like a massive crowd of people that has not been seen before. This sounds like the great harvest to me. The time of toiling to get people into the kingdom of God is over. We are now in the rejoicing time. “Sing, O barren…break forth into singing and cry aloud”.

The Bible says that time is short and that God will redeem the time. Lets look at a prophesy about God redeeming the time.

Joel 2: 23-26, Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.
24 And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil.
25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
26 And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed.

God will change things so fast for you that it will make your head swim if you will get time out of the way.   How do you get time out of the way? You get in faith.

The Bible does not say where Lazarus’ spirit was when Jesus called him back, but he immediately came forth out of the tomb still bound in grave clothes.   It happened instantly. Jesus was showing us that time cannot dominate faith. Remember the woman with the issue of blood. Her blood flow dried up instantly. Remember the miracles of the loaves and fish. As long as there was a demand placed on provision it was instantly present. Time could not stop faith then and it cannot stop it now. What about the impotent man at Lystra, who had never walked, when Paul perceived that he had faith to be healed said with a loud voice, Stand upright on your feet. And He leaped and walked.

Jesus told us plainly in Mark Chapter 4, how faith comes. We are to take heed what we hear, for what we hear will be measured to us. He that hears shall more be given. More what? More faith! He goes on to explain how faith comes. As a man casts seed into the ground, the ground brings froth fruit of itself, first the blade, then the ear and then the full corn in the ear.

Mark 4:29 But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come.

Faith cometh by hearing the word of God. When faith arrives in the heart, the harvest comes immediately.   We think we are in faith but actually we are laboring to enter into faith. Faith always has the answer with it. Faith connects with God. The results are instant.

Luke 13:13 And he laid his hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God.

Luke 18:43 And immediately he received his sight, and followed him, glorifying God: and all the people, when they saw it, gave praise unto God.

Luke 4:39 And he stood over her, and rebuked the fever; and it left her: and immediately she arose and ministered unto them.

Luke 5:13 And he put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will: be thou clean. And immediately the leprosy departed from him.

Luke 6:10 And looking round about upon them all, he said unto the man, Stretch forth thy hand. And he did so: and his hand was restored whole as the other.
Jesus showed us how faith works. It brings immediate results. We must labor to enter into the rest of faith. When we get there things happen immediately. We must retrain our thinking from, we must patiently wait for faith to manifest to faith brings instant results. The Bible says that we must contend for faith. The enemy does not want us to keep faith active in our hearts. He knows its power but he does not want us to know its power. The devil saw faith instantly raise Jesus from the dead and destroy his works forever.   Any person that the devil can keep in darkness to the power of faith, he can hold him captive. When the devil keeps people’s eyes and ears from the word of God he wins. The devil believes Proverbs 4:20-23. He does not want man to believe it.

My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
22 For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

The word of God will cause faith to come into people’s heart so they can have every need met instantly today, just as the word of God walking did in Jesus’ days on earth.

Let’s look at Mark 11:22-24. And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.
23 For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
24 Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.

We see clearly that doubt and belief are opposites.   They oppose each other. There is nothing in the above scripture that tells us that we must wait for the answer. We read that into this passage ourselves. Jesus did not have to wait on the results of His words spoken. Earlier in Mark Chapter 11 when he cursed the fig tree, the roots died instantly when he spoke.

We need to change our thinking when it comes to receiving provision from God to fulfill our assignment. God can and will make any man a millionaire in a month if he can believe it. God can and will get any man out of debt, no matter how much it is, in one day if he can believe. God is not limited within Himself. He is only limited in man as to what he can believe. This is why Jesus said, If you can believe, all things are possible to him that believes. We need to be as the man that Jesus asked this question, He said with tears in his eyes, Lord, I believe, Help thou my unbelief. In this same passage of scripture Jesus rebuked that generation for being faithless saying in Mark 9:19, O faithless generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you?

Jesus was saying how long shall I permit or put up with unbelief? Unbelief grieves Him. I will take it a step further and humbly say that unbelief angers Him. (Luke 14:16-24 The Great Feast)   This certain man made a great supper and invited many and said, Come, all things are now ready. The ones that were first invited would not come. The only way to come to God is through faith. For he that comes to God must believe that He is and that He is rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.

It is time for the body of Christ to come up to a higher level of faith and start believing God for instant results when it comes to provision and assignment.   The question is, Are we willing to pay the price that faith requires? That we come to a place of no doubt in the things that we are promised of God. If we are ready, the Holy Spirit will help our unbelief as He administers to us the word of faith.