Easter Retreat (Plenary 2) Friday, 29th March, 2024: Topic: Faith

Pastor Nkechi Ene

Review of WOFBEC 2024 (Faith that Moves Mountains: Doing the Impossible)
Topic: Living in the Impossible Zone
Text: John 6vs1-13

Impossible is something that is not able to occur or exist or done.
Three foundational things to establish:
1. God doesn’t deal with the word “impossible”.
Mark 10vs27
2. In Jesus Christ, God has opened up a portal for some people not to deal with the word “impossible”.
Mark 9vs23
3. The tool to move from the impossible to possible is faith.

Every situation you have in your life is either in the Impossible Zone or Possible Zone.
The Impossible Zone is open to both the believer and unbeliever.
The Possible Zone is the right and privilege of the believer.

Everyone has got some mountain (polus oculus) of some sort coming towards the them.
What mountain (polus oculus) is staring at you? What mountain are you responsible to solve?
When these mountains come to you, they don’t choose a convenient time.
Even when you are emotional exhausted, mountains will come for you.
Mountains don’t respect your time zone.

You must disregard your feelings many times to face mountains.
The only thing you are legitimately allowed to tell God about your life that is not fair is his favour.
If you will be a faith warrior or champion, put your emotions where it should be.
Mountains don’t care how you feel.

‭‭John 6:5 NLT‬‬
[5] Jesus soon saw a huge crowd of people coming to look for him. Turning to Philip, he asked, “Where can we buy bread to feed all these people?”

God doesn’t ask questions because he needs help. God asks questions to test you.
Jesus needed to know what Philip was seeing and understood of the situation.
What you see in a mountain is where you find your answers.
Teachers ask questions to find out what their students know.

Every mountain that comes against has one thing it is demanding from you which is Faith!
If you are a child of God and any task, any mountain comes towards you, it makes a faith demand on you, therefore you cannot afford the luxury of being devoid or bankrupt of faith or you will never dissolve mountains.
Faith is the currency you need.

2. Realize that Jesus already has the answer but needs you to trigger it.
3. Remember that faith is a spiritual force so natural reasoning will not pull any triggers.
Logical trigger: If you pull a logical trigger, you will never dissolve any impossibility.
Logical triggers don’t dissolve mountains.
You can’t dance with the Holy Spirit logically, sometimes you dance offbeat but it’s his dance.

‭‭Matthew 14:15 NLT‬‬
[15] That evening the disciples came to him and said, “This is a remote place, and it’s already getting late. Send the crowds away so they can go to the villages and buy food for themselves.”

Philip was dodging his faith responsibility by acting like he cared.
It’s your responsibility not God’s to dissolve the polus oculus (mountain).
Faith is believing what God has done, not what God will do.

‭‭Luke 9:13-14 NLT‬‬
[13] But Jesus said, “You feed them.” “But we have only five loaves of bread and two fish,” they answered. “Or are you expecting us to go and buy enough food for this whole crowd?” [14] For there were about 5,000 men there. Jesus replied, “Tell them to sit down in groups of about fifty each.”

They got defensive, they missed their answer right in front of them.
A faith demand is not meant to accuse you.
If you get defensive with God, faith has left you and you have stopped relying on grace.

‭‭John 6:8-9 NLT‬‬
[8] Then Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, spoke up. [9] “There’s a young boy here with five barley loaves and two fish. But what good is that with this huge crowd?”

The disciples didn’t know it was a faith demand on them. They had the answer in front of them but went back to logical reasoning.

Release the answer God has for you by pulling the trigger in the spiritual realm.
The trigger you must understand is the faithfulness