Week 169: Dead Things Don't Grow

                            Dead Things Don’t Grow

What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? James 2:14 (NIV)

• Lifeless. . .

• Finished. . .

• Extinct. . .

              When we pray for God to bless our wonderful-bright ideas and don’t see any results, it might not be because of a lack of faith; it could be what we’re praying for is dead. Hmmm!

                                     Dead Things Don’t Grow!

            There are times when God will resurrect the dead. He did it when Jesus raised Jarius daughter, (Luke 8:54-55) and when He raised Lazarus (John 11:43-44). Miracles like these glory God as they rouse our faith and give us hope. God is the same today as He was yesterday. (Hebrews 13:8)  

 However in Joshua 1:2, God told Joshua, “Moses my servant is dead.” God had no intentions of resurrecting Moses. Moses’ death meant that it was time for Joshua to move on. We have to be able to tell the difference between a delayed answer from a dead issue.   

         It’s a waste to hold onto timeworn ideas. These antiquated thoughts keeps us from focusing on what we really should be doing.

                               Is your faith up-to-date with God’s will?

Signs of death:

    • No inspiration,

    • No steps forward, and

    • A gut feeling that it’ll never happen.

      When we experience any of these signs or others like them, we should pray for God

to tell us like He told Joshua: Move On!  

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Week 168: Building Blocks

                                         Building Blocks

                         …God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith. Romans 12:3b 

• Erecting. . .

• Developing. . .

• Assembling. . .

When building a tower out of blocks, each block is dependent upon previously led blocks in order for the structure to become taller and stronger. It would be counter- productive if an old block had to be removed every time a new one was applied. 

Faith grows pretty much the same way as building a structure from blocks. The secret to growing faith is to remember all the past experiences that God has brought you through. If God did it in the past, He is faithful to see you through the next time around.

                               Our faith grows stronger trial by trial!

In II Thessalonians 1:3, Paul told the church in Thessalonians that their faith and the love that they have for one another was growing more and more. From this passage we learn that faith can grow and that love is an important element for its growth. 

Writing a weekly blog is God’s clever way to grow my own faith. He knows I desperately need development in this area. Consequently, writing about faith keeps it at the forefront of my mind throughout the day. 

As a result, God has given me a passion for people to grow their faith too. I want to share what I have learned about trusting God, as I learn from others who have gone through what I’m going through. I want us to operate this valuable gift of faith to the extent that God will allow. 

The way things are happening all around us, the world needs to see God’s supernatural powers operating on earth. They will see it as our faith grows stronger and stronger—block by block.

Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. (Mark 9:23)

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Week 167: Seeing is Not Believing

                                   Seeing Is Not Believing

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. (Hebrews 11:6)  

• I’ll believe it when I see it. . .

• You can’t expect me to believe that. . .

• I couldn’t believe my eyes…

          Seeing “it” in the natural before we can believe it—is not faith. Who can’t have great undeniable faith when what they’re believing for is right in their sight?

                                                 Has anyone seen God?

No one has seen God with their physical eyes. (John 1:18) Having the ability to see beyond what is naturally in front of us, as challenging as it can be, is what Christianity is all about. Even Thomas, one of the twelve who walked with Jesus, had a hard time believing that Jesus had been resurrected without physically seeing Him. (John 20:24-29)        

However, there is no way getting around it; Believers are required to believe what they can’t physically see. Believers’ spiritual eyes are developed from faith to faith. The more they remember God’s faithfulness in past circumstances, the clearer they’re able to see when life demand they see beyond the obvious.

God instructs us to believe those things which are not as though they were. (Romans 4:17) So, how do we maintain visual acuity when it’s hard to see? 

Spiritual sight can become blurry when the manifestation that we are believing for is not done instantaneously. We have to learn and put into practice what God tells us through His Word. If He tells us it is so—then it is so. When we receive God’s written Word in our hearts; we’re more opened to receive a rhema word in our spirit (the Word applied to personal situations.)  

 Genuine faith is having the ability to believe what can’t be seen.

                                               Old adage: Seeing is believing.

                                                 God: Believe it—then see it!

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