Tell me what that means for you!
If you are a person of faith I would love to hear how faith is playing out in your life this week...like specifically...
One of my biggest handicaps I have had to work through was moving from religious environment to the next and finding some level of reasoning for things with this word...You have to trust and 'live by faith' - I heard it at weddings, funerals, summer camps, and pretty much any challenge.
The problem with that is I am not sure where Jesus actually says that.
The result of this is quite a powerless life, that reduces us down to treating religious text like some rule book. While this may be true for some religious text, this is not true for the Bible.
You see Jesus didn't invite people to 'live by faith' from this sense of believe haphazardly for something magical to happen to your life. Wave your hands correctly and viola...nope not how it works...He invited anyone and everyone into a lifestyle of relationship with God. He never told people to know me you have to 'live by faith' or to know God you have to 'live by faith'. Instead, God is actively partnering with people and showing Himself to people, through any means possible. As people's interest gets piqued, faith engages. However, this faith if not sitting dumbly on the bench of life and hoping for magic - its individuals actively seeking out God - looking for what God is doing.
The magic happens as individuals actively seek out God and find Him. Faith is then no longer required in that moment. It's instead turns to authority.
The process then expands - you encounter an aspect of God - you then find He is doing/showing you something new, that requires you to actively seek the reality of it. Therefore faith is engaged in a new way. Which eventually leads to a new breakthrough - hence the Kingdom of Heaven being then released. Which is what Jesus commanded His followers to do in Matthew 10.
Here's all I am trying to say: People walk away from christianity because christians are lazy, and they use 'live by faith' as an excuse for not doing anything.
If you are a believer in Jesus - how are you living by faith this week? What is it that God has stirred in your heart to believe for? What are you actively seeking out in Him? If you don't know - you are not 'living by faith' and have no impact on people around you - you are living by lazy...I am guessing largely from ignorance.
When faith becomes authority - testimony of God is released, miracles are manifested, and the church is strengthened. If you are not in the game get in the game - people are hurting all around us and are waiting for hope to be revealed.
Live big friends - and feel free to share how you are living by faith this week -
be blessed and highly favored
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You said,
"When faith becomes authority - testimony of God is released, miracles are manifested, and the church is strengthened."
None of that is true. Faith doesn't become authority. Miracles aren't manifested.
No, faith isn't believing what you want to believe. On the contrary, the biblical standard for faith is much lower. We can't possibly know what God is going to do. Presuming otherwise doesn't make things happen unless God wants them to happen. Here are some genuine examples of faith:
(Hebrews 11:1 NIV) Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.
(Hebrews 11:6 NIV) And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.
(Luke 5:12-13 NIV) While Jesus was in one of the towns, a man came along who was covered with leprosy. When he saw Jesus, he fell with his face to the ground and begged him, "Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean." {13} Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. "I am willing," he said. "Be clean!" And immediately the leprosy left him.
(Daniel 3:16-18 NIV) Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego replied to the king, "O Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to defend ourselves before you in this matter. {17} If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to save us from it, and he will rescue us from your hand, O king. {18} But even if he does not, we want you to know, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up."
whats your take on Jesus commanding us to pray on earth as it is in heaven - or when paul says in 1 cor 2:6-16. I read a pretty clear invitation to know what Holy Spirit is doing and to function in partnership with Him. The process of faith is training my brain, emotions and body to get in line with the Spirit of God -
As I do, I actually see in partnership with God - His intentions come about. My faith then has become a place of authority. For example I have seen 100's of people with headaches healed, and I have helped tons of young people destroy depression in their lives. All of that has been a process for me of walking with the Lord and believing (engaging in faith) with things like Isaiah 61, or the Lord's prayer, or Romans 8:11, or Colossians 1:19-20 - these are a few of the promises God spoke to me which engaged my faith which in these two areas has now become authority.
I now am working on expanding my faith in other areas. As Hebrews 11 talks about.
I would also say taking things by presumption is incredibly dangerous and where lots of people get hurt, which I think is what you are referring to in the text in Daniel.
thoughts?
also I been meditating on the Fear of the Lord this morning...specifically Psalm 25:14 is rocking my world
Faith is not passive. It is very active. It is a response to God's word. God has promised to bless the work of my hands for instance, so everyday, I get to work, put in my best and trust God to bless my efforts, and he does. I received a commendation from my boss where he specifically told me how impressed he is with my contributions to the organization and gave me a one time housing allowance way above my grade. Faith in God makes me work. It makes me think and plan, it makes me pray and seek to hear what instructions or guidance he has for me, it drives me out there seeking ways to do whatever has been impressed in my heart to do. That doesn't look like passive to me.
wait to stay at it friend! love your partnership with God!