What Faith Have you?

 

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What Faith Have you?

   Mark 11:23/25 “Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them. 24 Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. 25 And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive them, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins.”

   God is asking this, because in so many of us are lacking in both a closer walk & connection with Him, and true faith & belief in His living word. So why aren't we? Is it our teaching that is hold us back? After all the Bible is not just a book with 2 halves in the Old testament [OT] & New Testament [NT]. You can’t have one without the other. You have it in it’s entirety, not for us to cherry pick only the bits we like!

   Coming back to the mountain, it is both literal & metaphorical. It can be Cancer; an addiction; a worry; any disease. When asking remember .. “does not doubt in their heart” .. which means your stepping out in faith. Therefore you ..”but believes that what they say will happen” .. “ it will be done for them” .. I have almost frombeing baptised physically & spiritually by the Holy spirit, I have said “have faith & believe”. [NKJV] Hebrews 11:1 “Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.”

   Just because we don’t see the Air we breath, does not stop us from breathing. All I ask in sharing is that you will start your closer walk with God [the one true living], and he will stir inside you greater faith in His and the good news that is His living Word.

A Definition of Faith

Faith is God operating in the soul by His

Son and transforming the natural into the

supernatural. Faith is the glorious knowledge

of a personal presence within you, changing

you from strength to strength and glory to

glory until you get to the place where you

walk with God, and God Thinks and

speaks through you by the power of the

Holy spirit.

Faith is evidence by a perfect peace in

the heart and complete conviction in the

soul the Gods word is true and, He will do it.

[John Lindell]

   So when praying don’t be like a piece of drift wood at sea. Being blown hither and by the wind and waves. It is time to stand on Gods word! If you either believe in His word or you don’t. God wants us to stand tall in the faith and demand it ~ to complete healing ~ Cancer gone ~ addictions gone ~ Hearing restored. Remember these words from Christ Jesus .. “Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father” [John 14:12 NIV] .. Not well you never know or maybe kinda sorter. But .. “they will do even greater things” .. So stand on His living Word and expect with your heart.

Jude & The Warning

 

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Jude &

The Warning

   In this small book, we are shown the pitfalls of being of the World. You may well be saved, but how well do you know & closely are you walking with our living God?  V4 “They are people to whom God means nothing” Yes .. Yes.. “we are to go out into ‘ALL’ the World preach the gospel” [Mark 16:15] That’s all well and good I hear you say, what if they refuse? You dust off your feet and hands, and tell them you have tried and they have rejected God. Then you can leave with a clear conscience, as you know you have tried, It’s NOT your fault they rejected God.

   Here the Bible reminds us that .. what these people don’t understand is that by rejecting Him they insult Him. Remember now that we are saved we have become transformed, now no longer of World thinking ~ attitudes & behaviour.

   Now set apart from the World, we must be careful that we don’t slip back into our old ways. We now no longer have the hunger or desire to be once again, as V16 puts it .. “These people complain; find fault; follow their own desires; say arrogant things; and flatter people in order to take advantage of them” .. V18 “In the last times people who ridicule God will appear”

   My prayer to God was, ‘this new lot politicians – are they any better than those they replaced? As they only lasted 2yrs out of 5yrs! I think I did truly got an answer, not the one I had maybe prayed hoped for.

   With you already on this, God, so in all things I will give thanks unto our Lord Christ Jesus, the author and finisher of our Faith. In finishing God wants to say this, V22/25 “22 Show mercy to those who have doubts. 23 Save others by snatching them from the fire of hell. Show mercy to others, even though you are afraid that you might be stained by their sinful lives. 24 God can guard you so that you don’t fall and so that you can be full of joy as you stand in his glorious presence without fault. 25 Before time began, now, and for eternity glory, majesty, power, and authority belong to the only God, our Saviour, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Amen.

The Bible translations used in this message was from ‘Gods Word (GW)

God want to forgive

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God Want's to Forgive

[NRIV]Micah 7:18/19 “Lord, who is a God like you? You forgive sin. You forgive your people when they do what is wrong. You don’t stay angry forever. Instead, you take delight in showing your faithful love to them. 19 Once again you will show loving concern for us. You will completely wipe out the evil things we’ve done. You will throw all our sins into the bottom of the sea”

   Micah asks here in reverence, ‘how is it that we do all these things wrong against you & others, yet you bestows upon us mercy & grace?

   V19 “You will completely wipe out the evil things we’ve done” … What an awesome God we have that we have a personal daily connection with. That He is going to over look ALL the .. “evil things we’ve done” .. V18 “Lord, who is a God like you?” .. Seriously, I feel what a God we have in as much as He is willing to, just just like when you make a mistake whilst writing a letter – you screw up the page and just start again, this is what God is doing for us here. As in V19 “You will throw all [yes all] our sins into the bottom of the sea” … Lets just let that sink in for moment.

OK??

   Let these remarks ring in your mind during the coming days…

~ What do you imagine about God after you’ve sinned?

~ Do you imagine an angry God, quick to turn you away? .. OR

~ Do you imagine Him indignant that you have failed, yet again?

   The Bible assures us that His anger & Disappointment in us passes quickly, and that He actually delights in giving Mercy to a humble and repentant heart.

   God really takes no joy in judgement, if we truly want to please Him, we need to stop trying to hide our sins & failures. We need to bring them out and lay them before Him, in the light of day and forsake them, so God can help deal with them, after showing you His Mercy & Grace.

[NIRV]: New International Readers Version