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If
you want explanations, please get my brochure titled,
If it’s God’s will, then why doesn’t it always
happen?
This
brochure here is
for study purposes only.
Faith
is a Force
Faith
is what makes the Word work.
Heb.4:2,
Word not mixed with faith, no results
Eph.1:19,
exceedingly great power for us who
believe
I
Thess.2:13, Effectively works in believers
Matt.9:29,
According to your faith, be done
Mark
9:23, All things possible, if believe
Not
a feeling but a decision
John
20:24-27, Thomas’ decision,
“faithless”
Acts
19:4, Paul preached, “Should believe”
John
6:29, the work of God is to believe
I
John 3:23, commandment, believe and love
Choose
which to believe
You must choose whether you will believe your
senses or God’s Word; circumstances and feelings, a
bad report, a doctor’s diagnosis, or God’s Word.
II
Cor.5:7, we walk by faith, not sight
Heb.11:1
(Amp) faith perceives as real fact what is not
revealed to the senses.
II
Cor.4:17-18 (not NIV) troubles help us
while or
because our
attention is on God (His Word).
Matt.14:26-33,
Peter walked on water while his attention was on
Jesus!
Must
be in two places
Rom.
10:8-10, Confess with mouth, believe
with
heart, and be saved.
II
Cor.4:13, We believe and therefore speak.
Mark
11:23-24, Say with mouth, believe with heart,
and have what you say.
Words,
the steering wheel
James
3:2-6, Tongue like bit and rudder
Joel
3:10, Let the weak say, “I am strong.”
Matt.12:34-37,
What’s in your heart comes forth; we’ll be judged
by our words.
Luke
19:22, Out of your own mouth, judged
Prov.18:21,
Death and life are in the power of the tongue!
Rom.4:17,
God calls things that do not exist
as though they do. (and we are to ~
Imitate
God and walk in love, Eph. 5:1)
Faith
makes things happen
In
the gospels, in twelve of nineteen healings, Jesus
said, “YOUR faith” got the healing.
Mark
5:21-42, Jesus
followed the two who spoke their faith.
They got results.
There are a few verses that use the word faith
as the set of doctrines (teachings) that we hold to.
This faith is not the kind that will move
mountains or even a cold.)
Faith
gets the victory
I
John 5:4-5, Faith is the victory that overcomes the
world.
Eph.6:16,
The shield of faith quenches the devil’s darts.
We
are supposed to overcome! Rev.2:7, 11, 26, 3:5, 12,
21, 12:11,
and 21:7.
God
is no respecter of persons:
Rom.2:11,
Acts 10:34, Gal.2:6, Eph. 6:9, Col. 3:25, and Deut.
10:17.
God’s
Already Done it all!
II
Pet.1:3 HAS
given all things …
Eph.1:3,
HAS blessed us with every . ..
Gal.3:13-14,
Christ redeemED us from the
curse
… Blessings of Abraham ARE ours.
(Deut.28:1-15,
Blessings and curses cover health,
wealth, and
long life.)
Isa.
53:4,5, peace=health,
wealth, protection Psa.119:165, great peace, if
love the Word. See
also Josh.1:8,
Psa.1:2-3, James 1:25.
How
Faith Comes
What
you continually hear, you will eventually believe
Rom.10:17
“Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of
God.”
Acts
15:7, should
hear the Word and believe
John
17:20, shall believe through their word
John
5:24, hear,
believe, and be saved.
Should we pray for more faith?
In Luke
17:5, the disciples asked Jesus, “Increase our
faith” And Jesus taught them to speak. (Use the little faith that
you have and it will grow!)
Keep
Speaking the Word
Heb.
4:14, Let us hold fast our confession
Heb.
10:23,
Let us hold fast the confession of our
hope without wavering.
II
Tim.1:13, Hold fast sound words, (faith words, God’s words).
Heb.
3:1, Jesus, High Priest of our confession, (to watch
over our words to see that they happen!)
It’s
up to us what we do with it
Rom.12:3,
“…given to every man the
measure of
faith.”
(All start with the same amount.)
Matt.15:28
and Luke
7:9, What great faith!
II
Thes.3:2, Not all have faith
Mark
4:40, “Why
is it you have no faith?”
Luke 8:25, “Where is
your faith?”
Speaking
to things:
God
and creation
Gen.1:3-24,
“and God
said …and it was so.”
Jesus
did it.
Mark
4:39, to the storm,
“Peace! Be still!“
Matt.21:18-20,
spoke to a fig tree
Luke
4:38, rebuked a fever
The
Disciples did it!
Acts
9:40, “Tabitha, Arise!”
Acts
22:13, “Receive
your sight!”
Acts
3:6, “Rise up and walk!”
We
are to do it!
Mark
16:17, cast out devils
Mark
11:23, speak to mountain
Matt.
21:21, speak to tree and mountain
John
14:12, do the things Jesus did. Also, I John 2:6,
4:17, Eph.4:13,
& Luke 6:40.
The
Word Works
God’s
Words have power,
and when you
say them continually, they will produce for
you!
Psa.
103:20, Angels
heed the VOICE of His Word;
(We give it voice.)
Isa.55:10-11,
Just like rain, the Word works. when returned to Him
(by our speaking it).
Isa.
43:26, Remind Me of what I said.
Prov.4:20-22,
Give attention to my words… for they are life
and health (medicine)
Psa.
107:20, He sent His Word and healed
them and delivered them...
Jer.1:12,
“I will hasten to do My Word.”
Hindrances
to Faith
Matt.
13:58, Mark
6:5-6, He
could not do many mighty works there because of
their unbelief.
Unbelief disconnects us from the power and is
evil. Mark 16:14, Heb. 3:12,
Heb. 3:19. In James
1:6-7, Doubt
stops prayers.
Mark
5:36, “Stop the fear
and believe!”
(The
man had begun in faith.)
Matt.
14:25-32, Peter walked
on the water; Fear
made him sink.
Gal.
5:6, Faith works by love. (I Cor. 13:4-8 is God’s
kind of love.) Unforgiveness
will stop a healing.
(John 13:34-35 is Jesus’ command to love.)
So every step out of love is sin!
James
4:6 and 10, “God resists the proud,”
so if you are proud, don’t expect faith to work for
you.
What
are you doing? Everything
we do is seed. (Sowing and Reaping, Gal. 6:7-9) If
you’re believing God for health, but keep eating
junk food and not exercising, then your faith won’t
work. Likewise,
if you’re believing for finances, but are stingy and
not walking in love, again your faith won’t work.
A godly life (hearing and obeying the Word) is
the foundation necessary for God to bless you.
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