Faith- Is God Powerless in your Life? (Part 3)

Real faith reaches down and grabs a lame man expecting to see God work (see Acts 3:1-9). No one in the hall of faith, located in Hebrews 11, accomplished God movement without first over-extending themselves to what is beyond the natural man's reasoning. Even Jesus spat in the dirt and made some spiritual eye salve (John 9:1-7), put spit in the eyes of a blind man (Mark 8:22-25), and gave a man a wet willy (7:32-35) all in the pursuit of God's will. Real faith drowns out the fear of what people think is over-reaction and accomplishes God's will.

There is a way that seems religious to others that does not accomplish God's will. True faith moves beyond the desire to look spiritual to the desire to speak God's will into existence. To me, faith is like throwing a baseball. I know when I rear back with God's word, when I hurl it out of my mouth, it is going to make an impact. That word is going to hurt something; it is going to pop satan in the mouth. God's word trumps satan every time, not me.

I used to look at faith like jumping off a cliff into the water. You wait until you get enough nerve and then leap. I would wait until I felt my faith was the strongest and then pray. At times I walk in great faith and in others, I have little faith. True faith comes from living in the word and the word living in you. "If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.” (John 15:7 NAS If someone abides some place it dwells there. Many people know the word of God, but they are not at the point of it living inside them. The person is just a dwelling; the word of God is what actually lives. This is what Paul was saying when he said, "I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.” (Galatians 2:20).

Is God Powerless in your Life? (Part 1)

God's word is His contract with true Christians. It is perfect, pure and flawless! However, we can contaminate God's word by our worldly thoughts and ambitions to the point that the Word has no affect on our lives, and His promises never reach His potential. By contaminate, I mean that we bring our beliefs and our desires that do not line up with God's word.

The cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful. Mark 4:19

When we desire anything more than God, we are guilty of removing the power from His word. We can even desire the promises of God more than God and this infects His Word with our desires. God's first and foremost desire from us is that we “love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.” (Matthew 22:37 ) What would you rather do than spend time doing the things of God?

Furthermore, we see in Mark 4:19, that the care of this world can over-ride God's Word. The children of Israel were guilty of this and they did not get to enter into the promised land. (Numbers 13-14) God told the children of Israel to go and possess the land and they believed their natural eyes more than they believed God's Word or His promise to them. We do this by looking at the circumstances rather than what God said. When God says it and we are in line with His word, it is finished.