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Many believers truly do not understand the working of faith. If they did they would see far greater results in their life. In this series learn the truth about bible faith, and how you can walk by faith and not by sight.
Romans 6:11
Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Christ took our sin on the cross and freed us from sin and all that came as a result of sin; sickness, disease, poverty, lack, fear, worry, stress, etc. Consider yourself dead to all that came through sin and alive to all that we now have through Christ. Stop thinking about and magnifying what you see in the natural; instead meditate on and magnify what Christ has done for you. Scripture teaches us that as a man thinks, so is he.
If you see yourself sick, lacking what you need, or defeated, you are going to continue to allow the very things that Christ has freed you from to overtake you. You need to renew your mind to what God says about you. Consider all that Christ has done for you instead of what you may be facing in the natural. We walk by faith (what God’s Word says), not by sight.
To do so you must consider the Word above everything else. Stay in the Word of God and focus your thoughts on what it says by thanking Him for what He said is already yours. The Word is truth and even though it may be true that you are facing something in the natural, truth will change what may be currently true in your life. Truth revealed through the Word means God is faithful to fulfill His Word. What you see is subject to change. What are you considering?
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Many believers truly do not understand the working of faith. If they did they would see far greater results in their life. In this series learn the truth about bible faith, and how you can walk by faith and not by sight.
Romans 5:1
Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,…
Through Jesus we have been given peace with God. The word peace means to be one with, a state of harmony. Once born again we become one spirit with the Lord. As Jesus is so are we in this present age because we are one with Him. There is no battle between you and God because you are one with Him. The devil does all he can to convince believers that God is mad at them so that they won’t draw near to God. But when Jesus bore our sin He also bore the punishment our sin deserved.
The Word of God tells us we will not face the wrath of God to come. Scripture also teaches us that those who keep their minds fixed on God and not on the things around them, God will keep them in perfect peace for they trust in Him. You do this by getting a picture of God’s truths established in your heart. When you do peace will be the result.
When we know that we have peace with God and we walk in that peace by focusing our thoughts on Him, trusting in Him, peace will surround you. You won’t be depressed, full of fear, and doubt God. Peace will be present and therefore your faith will work for you, leading you into a victorious life. So don’t run from God, run to Him and focus your thoughts upon Him, because He has given us peace.
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John 3:17
For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.
Through Jesus Christ we have been saved. The word saved is defined as rescued, preserved, healed, restored, made well. All of this is a part of God’s salvation package. To receive what we have available to us we must by faith see these things as already done, for in the eyes of God they are.
For example when someone today receives new life by accepting Jesus into their heart they become born again. But the moment they did so is not when salvation was provided by God, it was already available, for 2,000 years ago Jesus gave His life for us. They just chose to receive what God said was already done.
So it is with all we have in this salvation package. We must see it as already done and not something God is going to do and take it by faith. Take time to meditate on the promises you have been given in Christ Jesus until that Word get’s in you. Continually speak God’s Word over your life thanking God that you are healed, blessed, and delivered, because His Word says you already are not going to be. Once the Word comes alive in you faith becomes active and you can see manifested what Christ has provided for you.
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1 John 2:27
But you have received the Holy Spirit, and he lives within you, so you don’t need anyone to teach you what is true. For the Spirit teaches you everything you need to know, and what he teaches is true—it is not a lie. So just as he has taught you, remain in fellowship with Christ.
The Holy Spirit is the One who helps us to get revelation of the things of God in our heart. When revelation comes faith is there. It’s like walking into a dark room not being able to see the way out and then the Holy Spirit flips the light switch on. Once that happens you can see the way to go and act upon the Word of God.
A vital key in receiving this revelation is in how we read and listen to the teaching of God’s Word. Whether reading or hearing the Word taught, you must first recognize it is God speaking to you. It is not man’s words but God’s, for all scripture is given by God. Secondly you must give your full attention to God’s Word and not become distracted with other things. Pay close attention to what you are hearing.
Third you must learn to take verses that stand out to you and meditate on those verses consistently. Reading and hearing makes you aware of the Word, meditating on it is how you absorb God’s Word. Finally put what you know into practice for you deceive yourself if you are a hearer and not a doer of the Word. Put these truths into practice and His Word will become alive in you by the Holy Spirit.
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1 John 1:5
This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.
Once born again we are children of the light. We are to walk in the light and let our light shine. The entrance of God’s Word gives light, for God and His Word are one. To walk in the light receive what His Word says about you. Every verse of scripture that refers to who you now are in Christ you should declare such verses everyday. Confession brings possession. Don’t talk about the old you for you are a new creation.
Obey the Word of God. Let the Word be a lamp to your feet each day and a light to your path for your tomorrows. Obedience to the Word will keep you from living a deceived life, free from walking in the way of darkness. Don’t allow your feelings to rule you for if you do you will go the way of the flesh, which will lead you away from God’s Word. Remember we walk by Faith, not by sight (the way of our fleshly man).
Choose also to walk in love. Treat others how you would want them to treat you. It is one of the hardest things to learn because our human nature is used to walking in darkness. The more you choose to walk in the love of God, recognize who you are in Christ, and walk in obedience to the Word of God, you will be walking in the light of God; free from the darkness of this world.
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Phil. 3:12 Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me.
If anyone in the days of the early church had times they may have felt like quitting and giving up it would have to be the apostle Paul, but he did not. Paul had the goal of fulfilling all that Christ had laid hold of for him as his focus. What often hinders us from pressing on is looking to or focusing on the past. In the very next verse Paul stated there was one thing he had learned, to forget what is behind and press toward the goal of what Christ has ahead. Far to often we tend to always look to our past instead of simply releasing it and letting go.
If you are looking to your past you are not moving forward to the promise. Every promise we have been given through Christ Jesus for our life awaits us. We have to press on in faith to obtain those promises. The first generation of the children of Israel did not enter the promise land for they kept looking back to Egypt. They did not want to change their way of living to trust in God and do things God’s way and therefore they wandered in the wilderness even though their promise awaited.
God got them out of Egypt but He could not get Egypt out of them. This is the problem with many believers today. They don’t want to change the way they live, fully submitting to God’s way of doing things. If you want to walk in all God has for you then you must release the past, including your old ways of living, and you like Paul can press toward the goal of all God has for you and obtain it.
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2 Corinthians 2:15
For we are a fragrance of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing;…
Before salvation we had the smell of death, but in Christ we now have the fragrance of new life. This fragrance is the love of God. When you are born again that love is poured out into your heart, your new spirit man. Walking in God’s love is a choice we make every day. It is a choice we make to treat others the way that you would want to be treated, no matter how they treat you.
When you are walking in love you are walking with God, for God is love. But when you choose not to walk in the love of God you are not walking with Him. This takes you out from under God’s protection, and you can fall prey to the ways and the works of satan. But when you choose to walk in love you are not only protected from the works of darkness, you put off the fragrance of Christ, living as He lived.
People will take notice because you do not look like nor act like the world. This love is not an emotion, but revealed through actions. You simply choose to show God’s love no matter how you feel, for that love is in every believer, and is manifest as we choose to follow the way of God’s love. As we walk in love we can draw others out of the smell of death and bring them into new life and a new way of living through the fragrance of God’s love.
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Many believers truly do not understand the working of faith. If they did they would see far greater results in their life. In this series learn the truth about bible faith, and how you can walk by faith and not by sight.
Join me each week as we dig into the scriptures and share God's wisdom that will help you grow in your walk with God.
