Crazy Faith takes being led by the Spirit of God

Crazy Faith Spirit Overview

In this powerful message from NTC Ministries, Senior Pastor Dr. William Roman brings the sixth and final installment of the Crazy Faith series, preached on Mother’s Day, May 11, 2020. The message centers on what it truly means to be led by the Holy Spirit of God, drawing its foundation from Proverbs 3:5-6: trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. Pastor Roman walks listeners through the five previous messages in the series, covering themes of thinking of others, not despising small beginnings, courage, desire, and progression, before arriving at this culminating teaching on Spirit-led living. He challenges believers to turn off the noise of the world and develop sensitivity to God’s voice through daily Bible reading and prayer. A remarkable missionary account from the Philippines illustrates the point vividly: when Pastor Roman stepped aside and allowed the Holy Spirit to move freely, two believers received the miraculous gift of the Chinese language and were sent as missionaries to China. Drawing from Psalms 23:3, John 8:12-18, and 2 Chronicles 16:9, this message calls every believer to stop leaning on human reasoning and start walking by faith, not by sight.

Crazy Faith Spirit Outline

• 0:00 – Mother’s Day Welcome and Opening Prayer: Pastor opens the service with a warm Mother’s Day greeting, encourages the congregation to stir up their faith, and leads in a prayer of adoration to the King of kings.
• 12:00 – Worship and Spiritual Warfare: The congregation enters extended worship. Pastor reminds listeners that praise breaks the chains of anxiety and mental oppression, and that we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities.
• 28:00 – Recap of the Crazy Faith Series: Pastor summarizes the five previous Crazy Faith messages: thinking of others, not despising small beginnings, taking courage, having desire, and walking in progression according to Proverbs 4:18.
• 38:00 – The Foundation: Proverbs 3:5-6: The core scripture of the message is introduced. Pastor unpacks what it means to lean not on your own understanding and to acknowledge God in all your ways so He can direct your path.
• 48:00 – Building Trust in God’s Voice: Pastor explains how daily Bible reading trains believers to recognize God’s voice, using the illustration of a child knowing his mother’s voice in a crowd of a thousand children.
• 57:00 – The Philippine Missionary Miracle: Pastor shares a firsthand account from a ministry trip to the Philippines where stepping aside from his own plan allowed the Holy Spirit to supernaturally grant two believers the Chinese language, leading them to become missionaries to China.
• 1:08:00 – Jesus and the Pharisees: John 8:12-18: Pastor examines how the Pharisees could not receive Jesus because their own understanding blocked them, and how the same spiritual blindness affects believers who lean on worldly reasoning today.
• 1:16:00 – Spirit Leading Versus Self Leading: Pastor draws a practical distinction between Spirit-led decisions and decisions driven by human logic, fear, or outside voices, calling the church to loyal devotion as described in 2 Chronicles 16:9.
• 1:21:00 – Closing Exhortation and Application: Pastor challenges every listener to step out in crazy faith, stop being paralyzed by reasoning, and trust that as they follow God’s voice, the light will come and God will be glorified.

Scripture References

Proverbs 3:5-6, Philippians 2:4, Zechariah 4:10, Joshua 1:5-7, Proverbs 4:18, Psalm 23:3, Matthew 5:5, Ephesians 4:11-13, 2 Corinthians 5:7, James 2:19, 2 Chronicles 16:9, John 8:12-18

Key Takeaways

• Crazy faith is not reckless living but Spirit-led obedience that sets aside human reasoning in order to follow what God clearly instructs.
• Leaning on your own understanding is the single greatest obstacle to being led by the Holy Spirit and experiencing the miraculous power of God.
• You learn to recognize God’s voice the same way a child recognizes his mother’s voice, through consistent, daily time spent in His Word.
• God searches the whole earth to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose hearts are fully and loyally committed to Him, as stated in 2 Chronicles 16:9.
• When you step aside from your own agenda and allow the Holy Spirit to move, God does things that no human reasoning, education, or effort could ever produce.
• Walking by faith and not by sight means acting on what God says even before the evidence appears, trusting that the light will follow the step of obedience.
• The purpose of Spirit-led living is not personal comfort but the glory of God, so that the world can look at your life and say, what a great God.

Crazy Faith Spirit Notes

The Culminating Call of Crazy Faith

This message closes a six-part series on what Pastor Roman calls crazy faith, a term coined when a fellow minister observed Pastor’s bold, Spirit-led decisions and remarked they seemed unusual. Pastor’s response was that this is simply what faith is supposed to look like. The six pillars of the series are: thinking of others, not despising small beginnings, walking in courage, nurturing holy desire, embracing progression, and finally, being led by the Spirit of God. Each pillar builds on the last, and together they form a portrait of a believer who has moved from self-centered living to God-glorifying obedience.

Why Human Reasoning Blocks the Spirit

Pastor draws from Proverbs 3:5-6 to make a foundational argument: our own understanding, shaped by secular education, media, and fear, creates static that drowns out the voice of the Holy Spirit. He points to the Pharisees in John 8 as the defining case study. Trained in the Law, steeped in religious tradition, they could not receive the very Son of God standing before them. Pastor applies this to modern believers who fill their minds with news cycles and worldly reasoning, then wonder why they cannot hear God clearly. The antidote is deliberate, daily immersion in Scripture.

A Miracle That Only God Could Do

The most compelling moment of the message is Pastor Roman’s account from a ministry trip in the Philippines. He had a structured teaching plan, but the Holy Spirit fell unexpectedly on the gathering. Rather than asserting his agenda, Pastor stepped back. A woman in the crowd, unable to speak English or Tagalog, was speaking fluently in Chinese, a language she had never learned. By the next morning she and her husband, both of whom had carried thirty years of guilt over a failed missionary calling to China, were speaking and writing perfect Chinese. Their church had already purchased their tickets to Beijing. The miracle was only possible because Pastor did not lean on his own understanding.

Loyalty to God Invites His Strength

Second Chronicles 16:9 becomes a pivotal verse in this message. God’s eyes search the whole earth not for the most talented or most educated, but for those whose hearts are fully committed to Him. Pastor makes the sobering point that a believer can claim faith while simultaneously filling their soul with fear-driven media, politically charged narratives, and the leaven of unbelief. Loyalty to God means protecting what enters your heart and mind with the same intentionality you would use to keep something filthy out of your home.

Faith That Walks Before It Sees

Using the account of Jesus calming the storm in Mark 4, Pastor illustrates that God wants believers who are unshaken even in the middle of catastrophe. The disciples panicked while Jesus slept, and His question was not about the storm but about their faith. Pastor connects this to 2 Corinthians 5:7, we walk by faith and not by sight, and to the blindfold game illustration: the blindfolded person must trust the voice of their partner completely, and when the blindfold is removed, they see what God accomplished. Obedience comes first; understanding follows.

Practical Steps to a Spirit-Led Life

Pastor closes with actionable exhortation. Read your Bible every day and believe it above every other source of information. Reduce or eliminate media that feeds fear and unbelief. Spend time in prayer until God’s voice becomes more familiar than any other. When He speaks, act, even if the instruction seems small or unconventional. Do not despise the smallness of the first step. The path of the righteous grows brighter with each act of obedience, and the same God who sent missionaries to China through a miraculous gift of language is eager to show Himself strong in your life today.

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