Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God. Romans 10:17 Do you want to live your life believing God? Faith pleases God. It invites incomparable divine intervention in our lives. How do we believe God? Or a better question would be, “How do we get it?” We can’t pretend our faith. We have to receive it from Him to offer it back. Our initial faith to believe Christ for salvation comes from the work and conviction of the Holy Spirit. In the following scripture, we will discover how to receive faith to practice more of our faith. Read Galatians 5:22-23. What is…
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Credited As Righteousness
What does the Scripture say? Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.” Romans 4:3 The four motivations are Incomparable power (Ephe. 1:19), The pleasure of God (Heb. 11:6a), Reward Heb. 11:6b), and God will often act according to our faith (Matthew 9:29). Read Romans Chapter 4. What jumps out at you in this chapter? Take a look at verse 12. What kind of legacy did Abraham leave behind? Do you want to leave that kind of legacy? Take a moment to reread verse 3. Meditate on verse 3! This statement is also originally stated in Genesis 15: 6. This must be important…
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According To Our Faith
He touched their eyes and said, “According to your faith, will it be done to you.” Matthew 9:29 What is it that stops you from having a relationship with God? Is it the rules, have to give up things in your life that you really enjoy? Are you riding the fence of trying to follow both God and your desires? We won’t change the rules; however, let’s try to understand why God does what he does. God is all-wise. He wants an active relationship with each of us. Let’s see what Christ teaches about faith. Read the following passages. Matthew…
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Pleasure and Reward
Without faith, it is impossible to please God because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and rewards those who earnestly seek him. Hebrews 11:5 Read the above verse several times. We will digest this verse throughout this week. What is at stake as we make our faith a present active particle verb? Read Ephesians 1:19. What does God choose to exert in the lives of those who continually accept the challenge to believe Him? Read Hebrews 11:6. What are the two additional motivations for believing in God? Hebrews 11:6 uses the Greek word euaresteo. Strong’s definition of please is…
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The Act of Believing
His incomparable great power for us who believe . . . it’s like the working of his mighty strength, Ephesians 1:19 Do you have faith? Do you believe that faith is the best option? Faith brings God-ordained provision. However, the absence of faith carries a huge cost. Faith is without equal in its effects on our lives because God is without equal, and faith is the invitation he answers with proof. What is faith? Take a look at the Greek word “pistis.” Pistis means assurance, belief, belief, faith, fidelity. The words faith, belief, believing, and believe are translated from the word “pistis.” Faith is a noun and a…
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Rejoice With Suffering
Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that sufferings produce endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. Romans 5:3-5 Who wants to rejoice in our sufferings? Most people complain and whine about their sufferings. Have you ever rejoiced in your suffering? Have you found joy in our sufferings? I don’t pray for sufferings, trials, etc. However, I do stop and realize through that time; God is teaching me something. Our attitude can help with the suffering. If you remember…
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Put Your Hope In God
Why you downcast, O My Soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my savior, and my God. Psalms 43:5 Life can be hard. It can be depressing. People can zap all your joy out of you. Life experiences can weigh heavy on you. This can make a person’s soul feel down. We can get stuck there. However, we have to keep our hope in our Triune God. We have to trust in His plan for our life. He is not out to get us, to harm us, to hurt us. He is there to mold us, form us, to grow…
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Hope
Therefore, since we have such hope, we are very bold. 2 Corinthians 3:12 Hope means a feeling, expectation, and desire for a certain thing to happen. What is your hope founded on? Bold means lack of hesitation or fear in the face of risk or danger. Paul-based his hope on the new covenant. His hope was in Christ Jesus. He refers to the gospel of the law in the earlier verses (You may want to read 1 Corinthians 3:1-10). Paul had confidence in the gospel of Christ. This was the ministry of the Spirit. He had confidence in eternal life through Christ. This was the ministry that showed…
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God’s Mindset
In your relationship with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus. Philippians 2:5 NIV Make your own attitude that of Christ Jesus. Philippians 2:5 HCSB This here is a life verse. A verse we should meditate on all day long. This verse here had become my most favorite verse even before I truly understood it. When I came across this verse, I didn’t understand the Mindset of Jesus or the same attitude of Jesus. Those were the words that Got my attention. I wrote two versions of this verse. I recommend you search for a different version. Find the version that resonates with your soul. Jesus’s attitude was of complete…
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Grace Shown
And now for a little moment grace hath been showed from Jehovah our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage. Ezra 9:8 Have you been shown grace from God? I have been, and so have you. God has been showing and offering his grace since the beginning. Here in Ezra 9:8, Ezra is telling us how the Israelites have been shown the grace of our Jehovah God. God gave the Israelites the grace he didn’t desert them; he allowed…