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There is a kind of faith that waits for the evidence to arrive before it acts. And there is a kind of faith that moves before the evidence arrives, that steps into the unknown, not because the path is clear, but because the God who spoke is reliable, that acts on the word before the circumstances align, before the resources appear, before the fear subsides, before anyone around it agrees that this is a reasonable thing to do. Abraham had the second kind. and Kenyon spent decades of ministry trying to get the church to understand that the same faith is available to every bornagain believer alive today. Hebrews 11:8. By faith Abraham when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed and he went out, not knowing whether he went, not knowing whether he went. That single phrase contains more theology of faith than most sermons ever touch. Because the entire modern Christian culture has been trained to do the opposite. To wait, to plan, to confirm, to reduce the risk to something manageable before moving. To call the gathering of visible evidence wisdom, and to call the stepping out before the evidence arrives presumption. But Abraham did not wait for the evidence. He moved before it arrived. And what Kenyon identified in the hidden man of the heart is that Abraham was not operating from a special patriarchal faith unavailable to ordinary believers. He was operating from a specific, learnable, developable quality of the inner man, a settled certainty in the reliability of God's word that had been built through years of consistent daily practical acts of choosing the word over what the senses reported. And that settled certainty is available to you not as a theology you admire from a distance as a governing reality of your inner man the way it was in Abraham's the way Kenyon said it was designed to be in every recreated spirit that has been consistently fed on the word of God. But here is what most teachings on Abraham miss entirely. They focus on what he did. Kenyon focused on what he overcame in order to do it. And what he overcame is the same thing that is keeping most believers standing still right now. The same noise, the same pressure, the same voice of the senses drowning out the voice of the spirit in the moment of decision. Abraham heard what you have been hearing. A word from a god he could not see. A direction that contradicted everything his circumstances were reporting. A call that required him to leave the known for the unknown, the visible for the invisible, the certain for the uncertain, and the word one. Not because Abraham was superhuman, not because he had no fear, but because revelation knowledge had become stronger in his inner man than sense knowledge. And when those two came into conflict at the moment of the call, the stronger one governed.
Today we are going to show you exactly how that happened and exactly how it can happen in you because there is something God has been saying to your spirit and you have been waiting to see the end before you move. What Abraham discovered is why that is the one thing you cannot afford to keep doing. Most believers have a theology of faith. They can quote the verses. They have heard the sermons and nodded along with everything that was said. And yet when the moment of decision comes, when God speaks to their spirit and the circumstances are contradictory and everyone around them is counseling caution, they stay not because they do not believe in faith because their sense knowledge is louder than their revelation knowledge in that specific moment. This is the distinction Kenyon drew in the hidden man of the heart with a precision most teachers of his generation never reached. He said there are two kinds of faith. Sense knowledge faith and revelation knowledge faith. And sense knowledge faith will always have more visible evidence on its side. It will always be able to point to more reasons to stay than to go. It will always sound more reasonable, more responsible, more spiritually mature than the faith that steps out before the evidence arrives. But it will never produce a man who goes out not knowing whether he goes. Because sense knowledge faith can only move toward what it can already see. And revelation faith moves toward what God said before the visible world catches up. That is the faith Abraham had. That is the faith this teaching is going to build in your inner man. And it begins with understanding the specific environment Abraham was moving against because it is the same environment you are in right now.
To understand why Abraham could move, you first need to understand what he was moving against. Because the temptation when we read Hebrews 11 is to assume that Abraham's environment was somehow simpler than ours. That the voice of God was somehow clearer to him. that the obstacles were somehow smaller, that the stakes were somehow lower, and that his faith was therefore somehow easier to produce than the faith God is asking of us right now. None of that is true. Kenyon writes in the hidden man of the heart, when Jesus came, all men lived in the realm of the senses. If you read carefully the four gospels, you will notice that they had only sense, knowledge, faith. They believed what they could see, hear, and feel. Their spirit had no place in their daily life. Sense, knowledge, faith. Faith that only believes what it can confirm through the five physical senses. Faith that says, "I will believe it when I see it." Faith that requires evidence before it acts. Faith that treats the visible world as the final court of appeal for every decision. This was not just the faith of unbelievers. It was the default faith of everyone, including the people of God in a world that had not yet been born again, had not yet received the recreated spirit, had not yet been given the inddwelling Holy Spirit who enables the inner man to receive revelation knowledge directly from the word of God. And Abraham was living in that world. He had no New Testament, no completed scripture, no church. He had one thing, a word. And that word was asking him to act on something every piece of visible evidence was contradicting. Romans 4 18-20. Who against hope believed in hope that he might become the father of many nations according to that which was spoken. So shall thy seed be. And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead when he was about 100 years old. neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb. He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving glory to God. He considered not his own body now dead. This is the key phrase that Kenyon returned to again and again. Abraham did not ignore the physical evidence. He considered it, looked at it directly, and then chose not to let it govern his response. He saw what his senses were reporting. He understood what his circumstances were saying. And he chose the word of God over all of it. Not staggered, not wavering, not white knuckling his way through the doubt. Strong, waxing strong, growing stronger in faith the longer the evidence remained contradictory. Abraham's faith was not the absence of contrary evidence. It was the presence of something more reliable than the evidence. A word from a God who had proven himself faithful in smaller things. A history of covenant relationship that had demonstrated to the inner man of a man who had been walking with God long enough that what God says is more real than what the senses report. And that is the environment you are in right now. A word from God on one side, visible evidence on the other, a decision about which one governs. The good news is that you have something Abraham did not have. A recreated spirit, the inddwelling Holy Spirit, the completed word of God, every tool needed to develop the inner man to the point where revelation knowledge governs in the moment of decision. You are better equipped than Abraham was. The only question is whether you are using what you have.
Father, I speak right now over every person who has been standing still because the visible evidence was louder than the word. I decree that sense knowledge faith is losing its grip on their inner man right now. That revelation knowledge is rising. That the word of God is becoming more real to their spirit than anything their circumstances are reporting. I decree that they are not staggering at the promise of God through unbelief but waxing strong giving glory to God in the name of Jesus. When revelation knowledge begins to govern, something shifts. The evidence does not disappear. The circumstances do not immediately change, but they stop having the final vote. They become what they always were, temporary sense realm data points. And the word becomes what it always was. The permanent covenant reality already settled in heaven before the circumstance ever existed. That is the shift Abraham made. And it is the shift that made movement possible. But the question Kenyon pressed was not how Abraham made that shift in a dramatic moment. It was how he got to the place where the shift was possible. What happened in the years before the call that developed his inner man to the point where revelation knowledge could govern in the moment of maximum pressure? That is what the next reality unlocks. And it is the peace most teachings on Abraham's faith never reach.
So what is Abraham's secret? Not the broad principle, the specific precise mechanical reality that made it possible for this man to move when everything visible was pointing the other direction. What was happening in his inner man that the outer man of most believers never experiences? Kenyon identifies it in the hidden man of the heart with a clarity that cuts through every vague treatment of faith I have ever encountered. He writes, "Faith is a product of your spirit. Faith is developed in the human spirit by the word of God. It comes by acting on the word. Every time you act on the word, faith becomes stronger. Every time you act on the word, faith becomes stronger. That is the mechanics. Not a dramatic spiritual experience that permanently installs a special faith in the inner man. Not a single encounter with God that catapults the believer into a permanent state of unshakable certainty. A development, a building, an accumulation of acts, small acts, daily acts, consistent acts of choosing the word over the evidence that develop the inner man the way physical exercise develops the body. Abraham got to the moment of the call after years of this kind of development. Every time God spoke a smaller word and Abraham acted on it, even when the evidence was contradictory, even when it did not make natural sense, even when no one around him could see what he was moving toward, his inner man was being developed. His spirit was being trained to govern the senses. Revelation knowledge was being built into the fabric of his inner man through consistent daily practical exercise. until by the time the big call came, his inner man was developed to the point where the word of God was simply more real to him than anything else, not as a theological position, as an experiential governing reality that produced movement the way a developed muscle produces strength. Kenyon writes in the hidden man, "This recreated human spirit that fellowships with perfect love and with the author and finisher of faith becomes unconscious of the need of faith or of having faith. Just as love becomes unconscious of love, only conscious of the object of its love. Just so this new creation has breathed into it the quiet confidence of the creator, unconscious of the need of faith, not straining to believe, not manufacturing confidence, not fighting doubt down with willpower, simply walking in a settled, quiet certainty, the quiet confidence of the creator, that the God who spoke was the God who would make it good. That is where Abraham was when the call came. Not at a peak of spiritual intensity in a settled quiet place of inner man development where the word of God had become so real to his spirit. That movement was simply the natural response. And that same development is available to every believer who will act on the word in the small things. feeding the inner man consistently meditating on the word deliberately responding to the smaller words of God with the same obedience they want to bring to the big ones.
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See, now the mechanics of how Abraham developed his faith are clear. But there is still the practical question that most believers never get an honest answer to. What does this look like in the specific moment when God says move and everything visible is saying stay? That is the moment of decision, the threshold moment where Abraham made the choice that Hebrews 11 immortalized. And Kenyon identified exactly what that moment looks like from the inside of a developed inner man. He writes in the hidden man, believing is simply acting on the word. We act on the word as we would act on the word of a loved one. We act on the word because we know that it is true. We do not try to believe it. We do not pray for faith. We simply act upon it. We simply act upon it. Not not trying to believe it. Not praying for the faith to do it. Simply acting the way you act on the word of someone you completely trust. Because the inner man has developed to the point where God's word carries exactly that kind of weight. That is what the next reality unlocks. The exact understanding of God's word that made Abraham's action possible. and the exact reason most believers never reach that threshold even when they desperately want to.
Here is the understanding that made Abraham's action possible and that most believers have never been given with sufficient clarity to actually produce movement. God's word is not a promise. It is a covenant. And the difference between those two things is the difference between a hope and a legal reality. A promise is conditional. It can be revoked if the conditions change. It can be affected by the behavior of the one who made it. It can fail if circumstances intervene. A promise is as reliable as the person who made it. And in a world of fallen human beings, that reliability has limits. A covenant is irrevocable. It is a legal transaction sealed in blood that cannot be undone by changed circumstances, changed minds, or changed behavior. It is not dependent on the performance of the one who receives it. It stands on the integrity of the one who established it. And once cut, it holds with the same permanence as the blood that sealed it. Kenyon writes in new creation realities that God cut a covenant with Abraham. And Kenyon returns to this reality again and again because it changes everything about how the believer is supposed to relate to what God has said. The word of God is not wishful thinking. It is not religious sentiment. It is not God's best current intention subject to revision if the circumstances become too difficult. It is covenant language, the irrevocable commitment of a God who sealed his word in the blood of his own son. And this is why Abraham could act before he saw the end. Not because he was especially courageous. Not because he had suppressed the fear so completely that it no longer had a voice, but because he understood at the level of the inner man that the word God spoke was covenant, that it was sealed, that it was irrevocable, that no delay in manifestation, no contradictory evidence, no visible impossibility could change what God had legally committed himself to in the covenant. The word did not need Abraham to make it true. It was already true in the legal record of heaven. Abraham's movement was not what created the outcome. His movement was the alignment of his physical life with a reality that was already established in the spirit realm. And that is exactly what Kenyon says about the believer's relationship to the word today. The promises of the new covenant are not things you are trying to make happen through sufficient faith. They are things that have already been legally established in the blood of Jesus Christ. And your declaration, your confession, your movement in the direction of what God said is the alignment of your physical life with a spiritual reality that the blood already sealed. You are not trying to produce the outcome. You are enforcing what is already established. This is the understanding that makes Abraham's kind of movement possible. Not courage manufactured by willpower, not faith summoned by emotional intensity, the settled certainty of a covenant holder who knows that the word is sealed and that movement in the direction of what God said is simply the practical expression of what is already legally true.
Father, I decree right now over every person hearing this that the word of God is shifting from promise to covenant in their inner man today. That the legal, irrevocable, bloodsealed reality of what God has spoken is becoming more real to their spirit than the visible evidence around them. I decree that they are moving uh not because the fear is gone or the evidence has aligned but because they know that what God said is sealed and sealed things do not require visible confirmation before they are trusted in the name of Jesus.
Most believers approach the threshold moment of faith the wrong way. They ask, "Do I feel faith right now? Has the fear subsided sufficiently to move? And because the feeling of certainty almost never arrives before the step, they wait and the covenant reality waiting to be activated through their movement remains unactivated. Abram did not approach the threshold that way. He did not try to believe. He did not pray for the feeling. He simply acted the way you act on the word of someone you completely trust. Not because you saw the outcome, because you know the one who told you. That is covenant faith. Not someday when the fear subsides. Now in the direction of what God said, trusting the one who said it.
So why do most believers stay when God says go? Not because they lack theology. Not because they have never heard the story of Abraham. Not because they do not believe in faith in principle. The reason most believers stay, the specific identifiable practical reason is the one Kenyon named with devastating clarity in the hidden man of the heart. The senses are louder than the spirit in the moment of decision. And when the senses are louder, when the visible evidence has a stronger voice in the inner world of the believer than the word of God, they govern not because the believer chose them consciously, but because the inner man has not been developed to the point where the spirit can govern the senses under maximum pressure. Kenyon writes, "Until the believer recognizes the two kinds of faith, sense knowledge faith and revelation faith, he will never be able to enjoy his privileges in Christ. Because since knowledge, faith will always have more evidence on its side. It will always be able to point to more visible reasons to stay than to go. It will always sound more reasonable, more responsible, more spiritually mature than the faith that steps out before the evidence arrives. And the believer who has never developed the inner man to the point where the spirit is stronger than the senses will always default to sense knowledge faith when the pressure comes. They will feel the evidence. They will weigh the circumstances. They will listen to the counsel of everyone around them who can only operate from what they can see. and they will stay not because God did not speak because the senses were louder than the spirit in that specific moment of decision. This is why Kenyon was so insistent on the daily development of the inner man, not as a spiritual discipline for its own sake, as preparation for the moment when God calls you to move and everything visible tells you not to. The believer who has been feeding the spirit on the word consistently, who has been building revelation knowledge through daily meditation and confession, who has been acting on the word in small things so that faith develops through consistent exercise is the believer whose spirit is strong enough to be heard over the noise of the senses when the big moment of decision comes. Kenyon writes, "As faith grows, Satan's dominion over us waines. Circumstances are less formidable. Fear is destroyed. As your faith grows, you begin to possess your rights in Christ. You begin to take what belongs to you. That is what happens when the inner man is developed. Not that the visible evidence becomes more favorable. Not that the circumstances stop being challenging, but that the spirit is strong enough, developed enough, certain enough in the reliability of God's word that the evidence stops having the final vote and movement becomes possible. The noise does not disappear, but it loses its authority over a spirit that has been developed to the point where the word of God is simply more real than anything the noise is saying.
And here is the critical distinction Kenyon draws between the believer who has reached that point of development and the one who has not. He writes in the hidden man, "Doubt says, I claim the promises. I am standing on the promises." That is all the language of doubt. Unbelief quotes the word but does not act upon it. Faith acts, faith moves. Faith packs up and goes out not knowing whether it goes. Not because the evidence aligned, not because the fear disappeared, because the word of God became more real to the inner man than everything the senses were shouting. And that development, that shift from a sense inner world to a word governed inner world is not a gift that arrives fully formed. It is built daily deliberately through the same kind of consistent daily exercise that built it in Abraham over decades of walking with God.
So what does that exercise actually look like? And what is the specific moment it produces? The moment Kenyon described as the turning point between the believer who stays and the believer who moves. That is where we are going right now. And it is the most practical piece of everything this teaching has been building toward. There is something God has been saying to you. Not a theological concept, not a general spiritual aspiration, something specific, a direction, a decision, a step. He has been pointing your spirit toward in the word, through the inward witness, through the still small voice of the inner man that keeps surfacing no matter how many times you push it back down with logic and caution and the reasonable council of people who can only see what their eyes can confirm. You know what it is. And the question this entire teaching has been moving toward is not whether you heard it. The question is why you are still standing here when the word already told you to move.
Kenyon wrote about this specific moment in the hidden man with the most penetrating observation I have ever read on the subject of faith and action. He writes, "Faith says, 'Thank you, Father. Faith has it. Faith has arrived. Faith stops praying and begins to praise.'" Read that again. Faith stops praying and begins to praise. Not faith keeps praying until it feels certain. Not faith waits for the emotional confirmation. Not faith continues to seek God until the fear subsides and the circumstances align and the resources appear. Faith stops praying and begins to praise because faith has already received not seen received in the inner man at the level of the spirit. The word has dropped from the head into the heart and the heart now knows with the quiet settled certainty that Kenyon said is the hallmark of the developed inner man that the God who spoke is the God who will make it good and from that settled knowing praise is the natural response and movement is the natural next step. This is where doubt reveals itself. Kenyon says, "Doubt says I claim the promises. I am standing on the promises." That is all the language of doubt. It sounds exactly like faith. Uses all the right words, quotes the right scriptures, but it is standing rather than moving, waiting for the physical confirmation before adjusting behavior. The believer who mistakes that posture for faith will stand there indefinitely. But the believer whose inner man has been developed, whose spirit is stronger than the senses, whose revelation knowledge governs in the moment of maximum pressure, that believer hears what God says, says, "Thank you, Father," and moves, not knowing whether they go, knowing who called them, and knowing with the settled certainty of a covenant holder that the one who called them is more reliable than anything the visible world can report. That is Abraham's secret, a developed inner man, a covenant understanding of what God's word actually is. A settled, quiet certainty built through consistent obedience that when God speaks, movement is simply the natural response. And the remarkable thing Kenyon identified is this. The movement itself produces more faith. Every step taken in the direction of what God said before the evidence arrives builds the settled certainty in the spirit that makes the next step easier until the believer reaches what Kenyon described as the most extraordinary quality of mature faith. Unconscious of the need to have faith. simply moving in the quiet confidence of a spirit that has learned through consistent exercise and daily development that the God who speaks always makes it good.
Father, I decree right now over every person standing at their threshold moment. The specific thing God has been saying to their spirit, the step he has been waiting for them to take. I decree that sense knowledge faith is losing its grip and revelation knowledge is rising to govern. I decree that they are hearing what Abraham heard and choosing what Abraham chose. That they are moving not because the evidence aligned not because the fear disappeared but because the word of their covenant God is more reliable than anything the visible world can report in the name of Jesus.
Now let me be specific. This teaching has not been about Abraham in the abstract. It has been about the threshold you are standing at right now. You do not need more confirmation. You have the word. You do not need the circumstances to align first. Abrahams never did. Not until after the movement. You do not need the fear to subside. It will subside on the other side of the step, not on this side of it. What you need is what Abraham had, a developed inner man, a covenant understanding of what God said and the settled knowing built through consistent daily exercise of acting on the word that the God who spoke is the God who makes it good. Feed the spirit daily. Act on the word in small things. Build the inner man through consistent exercise and watch revelation knowledge become louder than sense knowledge. One act of obedience at a time. Hebrews 11:8. And he went out not knowing whether he went. That verse is not just a record of what Abraham did. It is a description of what faith looks like when the inner man has been developed to the point where it governs the senses. When revelation knowledge is stronger than sense knowledge, when the word of God is more real to the spirit than anything the visible world can report, it looks like movement, not perfect movement, not fearless movement, not movement accompanied by a supernatural peace so complete that the circumstances stopped mattering. Movement in the direction of what God said before the evidence arrived, trusting the one who spoke more than anything the eyes could confirm. And that is exactly what God is asking of you right now. Not perfection, not the complete absence of doubt or fear or the noise of the senses. Movement, a step, the specific step he has been speaking to your spirit, the one you know, the one that keeps surfacing. The one your inner man has been settled on even while your senses have been arguing against it. Take it. Not when the circumstances align. Not when the resources appear. Not when the fear finally subsides and everyone around you agrees it is a reasonable thing to do. Not when you have gathered enough visible confirmation to make the step feel safe. Now in the direction of what God said with the settled certainty of a covenant holder who knows that the word is more reliable than the evidence that the one who called you is more trustworthy than anything the visible world can report. that the God who led Abraham out of and into the unknown with nothing but a word and a direction is the same God who is calling you forward right now.
Kenyon wrote in the hidden man that the life God intended for the new creation is a life of movement not standing at the threshold waiting for the evidence to make the step feel safe. A life of consistent daily faith-governed movement step by step, act by act, obedience by obedience in the direction of what God has said. Building the inner man through every act of obedience. Growing stronger in faith through every step taken before the evidence arrives. Becoming increasingly unconscious of the need to have faith and increasingly conscious only of the one who called. That is the life Abraham lived. And that is the life this teaching has been pointing you toward. Not as an aspiration you admire from a distance, but as the daily practical governing reality of a new creation whose inner man has been developed to the point where the word of God is simply more real than anything else.
The challenge this teaching leaves you with is not a spiritual to-do list. It is a decision. You have the word. You have the covenant. You have a recreated spirit better equipped than anything Abraham had. The faith is available. Kenyon said, "Abraham's faith is the true type of the faith of a believer today." The question is not whether it is available. The question is whether you will do what Abraham did with it. Hear what God said and move.
Father, I come before you right now on behalf of every person who has received this teaching today. I thank you that your word has not returned void. I decree that since knowledge, faith is permanently losing its grip on the inner man of every listener right now. That revelation knowledge is rising to govern, built by the word sealed by the covenant, developed through consistent daily exercise. I speak to every threshold moment, every specific step God has been waiting for. And I decree that the movement begins today. Not when the circumstances align. Not when the fear is gone. Today in the direction of what God said, because the covenant word of a faithful God is more reliable than anything the visible world can report. I decree that they go out, not knowing whether they go, knowing who called them, and knowing that the God who led Abraham out of everything familiar and into everything promised will lead them too. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, type I am moving by faith in the comments right now. not as a wish, as a declaration. The commitment of a believer who has heard what God said and is choosing from this day forward to act on it the way Abraham did without seeing the end, without waiting for the evidence, without needing the senses to confirm what the spirit already knows.
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