LIVE BY FAITH

Have you thanked Him?

Have you praised Him?

Have you made it your priority to agree and cooperate with Him today?

Have you taken that deep breath and listened for what He has for you today?

1 Timothy 2:1 (The Message)

^1-3The first thing I want you to do is pray. Pray every way you know how, for everyone you know.

“Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.”

- Max Lucado

“Often”we want to place our faith in GOD as long as He has the same agenda as we do. “Often” we “exercise” our faith, but with an end result in mind.

“I have faith that you GOD will bring ‘such and such to pass” is our prayer.

But GOD doesn’t ask us to both have faith and formulate a solution. GOD keeps it much simpler. He says He has done all of the heavy lifting, He has provided the good news and the promise, all we are to do is have faith in it.

Romans 1:17

The Good News shows how God makes people right with himself—that it begins and ends with faith. As the Scripture says, “But those who are right with God will live by faith.”

Romans 4:16

… the fulfillment of God’s promise depends entirely on trusting God and his way, and then simply embracing him and what he does.

It's a day-by-day process.

Yet we are always looking for the angle, for the inside track. “How do I have faith but also get what I want”,we ponder. But why do we do that? Why when we know that GOD is all seeing, all knowing and sovereign would we limit our faith to just what we can fathom or surmise. GOD is way bigger right? His possibilities are way bolder right?

Ephesians 3:20

With God’s power working in us, God can do much, much more than anything we can ask or imagine.

Not to mention that our faith in GOD has the iron clad assurance that whatever comes to pass is for our GOOD.

Romans 8:28

We know that in everything God works for the good of those who love him.

So why is it that we just can’t “live by faith” and leave the rest to GOD?

We are human.

Sometimes we go through times in our lives when it seems like nothing is happening in terms of our spiritual growth. We go through times when things are bad. We go through times when we are confused or worn out. We go through times when our agenda isn’t being met.

We go through times when we just aren’t seeing change.

Those are the times to LIVE BY FAITH! Yet sadly that is when we "waver".

GOD assures us that as we are walking by faith day by day, month by month, and year by year, we are being transformed; that His plan for us is in full swing and it is GOOD!

Romans 12:1-2

…fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it…God brings the best out of you…

So if we want in on the best then let’s put down the agendas and instead walk and live by faith.

2 Peter 1:5

So don’t lose a minute in building on what you’ve been given, COMPLEMENTING your basic FAITH with good character, spiritual understanding, alert discipline, passionate patience, reverent wonder, warm friendliness, and generous love, each dimension fitting into and developing the others. With these qualities active and growing in your lives, no grass will grow under your feet, NO DAY WILL PASS without its REWARD…

Live in FAITH today!

Have a blessed day…

I love you all!

Freedom Church

Pastor GDelaney