Face the Future With Faith! (part 5)
August 21, 2024
Face the Future With Faith! (part 5)
Faith and Words Go Together
8.21.2024
Review
(Part 1) 7.17.2024
As world conditions deteriorate, now is the time to build your faith in God’s Word.
1 John 5:4 (NKJV)
For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.
Jesus gave you faith when you were born again!
Faith is developed two ways: learning the Word, and then exercising it against the circumstances of life.
(Part 2) 7.24.2024
There is no faith in God that is not directly attached to His Word!
(Part 3) 7/31/2014
What kind of faith do you have?
The “Thomas” kind of faith
Thomas’ faith only believes when it sees and feels.
Abraham’s kind of faith
Abraham’s faith is believing right now that you receive what God has promised you and that He is answering your prayers, even if you can’t see or feel it.
(Part 4) 8.14.2024
Faith is always past or present tense.
Hope looks to the future to receive. Faith is NOW!
Believing you receive what you have asked for from the Lord before you see or feel it is the key to receiving from Him!
8.21.2024
Faith and Words Go Together
Faith must have actions that move it!
Do my actions show that my faith is active?
James 2:14-26 (NKJV)
What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit? 17 Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. 18 But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. 19 You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe—and tremble! 20 But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead? 21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar? 22 Do you see that faith was working together with his works, and by works faith was made perfect? 23 And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” And he was called the friend of God. 24 You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only. 25 Likewise, was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way? 26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
One major way to act your faith is to say what you believe!
Mark 11:23 (NKJV)
For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.
It is 3 times as important to say what you believe than it is to believe it!
Faith comes out of your heart to the Lord with words!
Hebrews 11:3 (NKJV)
By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.
Faith uses words to bring what you believe into physical manifestation.
2 Corinthians 4:13 (NKJV)
And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, “I believed and therefore I spoke,” we also believe and therefore speak.
Romans 10:6-8 (NKJV)
But the righteousness of faith speaks in this way, “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’ ” (that is, to bring Christ down from above) 7 or, “ ‘Who will descend into the abyss?’ ” (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). 8 But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith which we preach):
Words reveal what is in your heart!
Matthew 12:34-37 (NLT)
You brood of snakes! How could evil men like you speak what is good and right? For whatever is in your heart determines what you say. A good person produces good things from the treasury of a good heart, and an evil person produces evil things from the treasury of an evil heart. And I tell you this, you must give an account on judgment day for every idle word you speak. The words you say will either acquit you or condemn you.
Look back to what you’ve been saying, and you’ll know what you are believing.
What we believe we talk about.
You can’t say one thing and believe something else…
What are you saying deep inside with your self-talk?
I’m not worth having much. Poverty, just-making-it mentality.
Health. Grandpa had it, dad had it, I will get it.
You can school yourself into believing. So and so has said that so much they really believe it.
Instead of saying what you have, say what you believe, and life will change!
Saying nothing means there is no faith.