How Does Faith Work?
HOW FAITH WORKS
Many people try to get faith to work apart from the way that God said it’s going to come. They pray for it , beg for it, sometimes fast for it, and then they wonder why they are having trouble receiving from God!
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Rom. 10:17 “So then Faith "Comes" by hearing and hearing by the Word of God.”
-Did you know that Faith Comes?
Rom. 4:17 "As it is written, I have made thee the father of many nations,) before Him whom he believed, even God who quickens the dead and Calls Those Things which be not As Though They Were.”
“Calls” Gr. to give some NAME to one. Call a sick body Healed! Call financial lack, Abundance!. -Call things broken and lost, Restored!
Rom. 4:17 TPT “That’s what the Scripture means when it says: “I have made you the father of many nations.”
God is our example and father, for in God’s presence Abraham believed that God could raise the dead and call into being things that don’t even exist yet.”
James 2: 14,17 Wey. Trans “What good is it, my brethren, if a man professes to have Faith, and yet his Actions do not Agree, can that faith save him?"
I. FAITH COMES BY HEARING THE WORD OF GOD. -Read Rom. 10:17
When you are hot, refreshing Comes by Exposure to Cool air. Acts 3:19 says, Refreshing Comes from the Presence of the Lord.
Faith Comes by Allowing yourself to Hear the Word and Receive it! If you become Indifferent to the Word of God you Won't Allow yourself to hear it!
Matt. 14:22-32 Read All "And Peter answered Him and said, “Lord, if it is You, command me to come to You on the water.”
Peter Received the Faith to walk to Jesus on the water only after Jesus said, Come! The reason Peter sank after walking to Jesus on the water, is his FOCUS SHIFTED from Jesus to the doubts and fear that the Wind and Waves produced. The weight of Your Faith needs to be on the Word Come.. The Promise of God, because you can't "walk on the water" in the natural anyway!
The Supernatural Call of "Come", Requires Supernatural Steps! -You will have to Trust the Power of the Living Word!
That is what Walking By Faith Is!!! Supernatural!
Keep Your Focus on What God Said while you walk out the Promise! Abraham Received the Faith to see Issac born after he Received a Word from God saying, “ I have made you a father of Many Nations.”
When You Get a Revelation of the Word of God in your Heart, Faith is Born there! Ps. 119:130 says,"The entrance of Your words gives light; It gives understanding to the simple."
Psalm 119:130 VOICE. "When Your Words are Unveiled, light shines forth; they bring understanding to the simple."
II. HOW DOES FAITH WORK?
Rom. 10:9,10 Two parts of Faith.
1. Believing with the Heart.
2. Confessing with your mouth.
Mk. 5:25-29 AMP "And there was a woman who had had a flow of blood for twelve years,...” Notice she DID three things.
1. She Heard.
2. She Came.
3. She Confessed.
Faith must be Acted upon.
Let’s look at Acts 14:8-10 "And in Lystra a certain man without strength in his feet was sitting, a cripple from his mother's womb, who had never walked."
The lame man had faith, but it didn’t produce until he Acted Upon it! When We Act in Faith we can do this two ways.
1. By Speaking Gods Word out of our heart. Mt. 9:27-30
2. By Taking Steps in a direction because of what I Believe.
Ex. Heb.11:8 “By faith Abraham when he was called to go out…, went out not knowing where he was going.”
Heb. 10:23 says, “Let us hold fast to our profession - confession of faith without wavering.”
Mk. 11:23 “Whosoever shall say…, and not doubt in his heart, but believe those things which he says shall come to pass,he shall have whatsoever he says.”
III. ARE YOU RESTING IN GOD AND THE PROMISE OF HIS WORD, OR WRESTLING?
Heb. 4:2,3. "For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the Word Preached Did Not Profit them, Not Being Mixed With Faith In Them That Heard it."
When the pressure is on, if we are not careful we may be mixing feelings and compromise with the Word that we have Heard!
V.3 "For we which Have Believed Do Enter into Rest,"
BELIEVED: Gr. to Entrust (especially one's spiritual well-being to Christ).
Commit to, be persuaded of, place confidence in.
When you Have Believed, - past tense, Rest is the Result! There is a Rest with Faith!
If you are not Resting, you are not in Faith yet! Keep meditating on the Word and Speaking it until you are Resting in it! Remember, you can have Faith Working in your heart while doubts are coming against your mind. Faith will say about itself whatever the Word of God Says!
When the Word of God gets bigger on the Inside than the circumstances on the outside, Your Mouth will begin to Speak! Feed Your Faith and starve your doubts! The way that you keep your Mind Right when adversity comes, is to Hear Something from God's Word that is Contrary to the negative report, and then Meditate on it!
YOU HAVE TO PRESS AGAINST THE PRESSURE WITH THE WORD! Maintain your Joy by Speaking the Promise! Press thru your feelings and the doubts, and Say "I'm Going Through! The #1 way that the bible teaches us to release our faith is, by Speaking!