Skip to main content

Believe and Receive

    To believe God beyond the circumstances surrounding us is to have faith. It is what our entire Christian experience is based upon! Faith is the currency of Heaven. To even enter the Kingdom, we had to have faith that Jesus is who He says He is without seeing any real "proof" beforehand. We can go nowhere in our walk with Jesus without having faith in Him. Today I want to simply encourage you to walk out that faith.

Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. (ESV)

Hebrews 11:6 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. (NIV)

     If you want to get to please God, seek Him out and have faith. Faith will bear rewards into your life and you will be able to see God for more of who He is. When we decide to believe Him in what He promises, we learn His character and the vastness of His power and love for us. It is not for nothing that He asks us to trust Him.

    Today if you are having a hard time believing God will do what He said He will do because you cannot see it, change your focus. Start asking Jesus to give you faith in Him, for even this is a spiritual gift (listed in 1 Corinthians 12)! He grants us even the ability to believe Him.  Because faith is the currency of the Kingdom of Heaven, all you have to do is believe and receive all that He has for you!

Mark 9:23-24 Then Jesus said to him, "'If you can'? Everything is possible to the one who believes."
Immediately the father of the boy cried out, "I do believe! Help my unbelief." (NIV)

Luke 17:5 The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!” (ESV)
1 Corinthians 12:9 to another faith by the same Spirit (NIV)

 Matthew 21:22 And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith. (ESV)

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

He Time

     We have now gone over me time and we time, so today I want to address He time. It's a pretty simple concept-- that we have to spend time with Jesus to grow our faith. Just like anything else we want to get better at, you have to spend time doing it. In the case of Christianity, we are changed into the image of Jesus as we spend time with Him. 2 Corinthians 3:18 And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit. (ESV)     My message is as simple as this-- make sure that you are setting time aside for Christ. You will never change if you don't continually immerse yourself into His presence. We need to be spending time in His word so we know His promises and guidelines for our life, in prayer to speak to Him for individual direction in our circumstances, and worshipping Him for His goodness.     Do not le...
Post a Comment
Read more

Think Twice

    When the Holy Spirit was sent to us on earth, it made Jesus readily available to all. Now He lives in us, not among us. When you are a born again Christian, you now have Jesus dwelling inside you. How does that affect your daily life? Do you realize that you are a reflection of the one you carry with you everywhere you go?    Sadly, that doesn't mean much to a lot of Christians. Instead of using Jesus as an instrument of love, hope, and salvation, they use His name as a weapon. They spend their time boycotting instead of praying for Jesus to change hearts. Telling others that the God who IS love, hates them. Letting others know that they will go to hell for their decisions, instead of lighting the way to heaven. Let me be clear: this is wrong! No one wants to believe in a hateful, unforgiving God. I certainly don't. That's why I follow Jesus.     Even if you aren't the one openly boycotting on street corners, be careful of the image of God you are g...
Post a Comment
Read more

The Path to Life

     Through this most recent season in life, God has been teaching me what it truly means to follow His plans for my life. Over the last year or so,  I have had to make some of the most ''adult" decisions in my life so far. Through that process, I have had to rely heavily on faith and the leading of the Holy Spirit to discern which is the right way to go. It has been a challenge for me, a planner to the core, to put my trust fully in God's plans and leading even when I am unable to see what's ahead and I am glad to say I have come out having learned a few things.      The main takeaway I would like to share is this: the right way is not the easiest way . That probably sounds very obvious if you have spent any time in church, but I never thought about that principle carrying over into walking out God's plans for my life. You see, there have been decisions that I have made over the last year that I was certain were what God was leading me to do. An...
Post a Comment
Read more