Living a faith filled life is about believing God- and Obeying Him.
Believing will lead you to obeying - to following His will and HIs way for your life- the life that leads to abundance in Him
Faith must be developed
Whats the first step in developing faith?
Choosing - make a choice
Choose this day whom you will serve(Joshua 24:15)
James 1:2-4(NKJV)
2 My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces [a]patience.
4 But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be [b]perfect and complete, lacking nothing.
Choice- joy is a choice not a feeling-count on Him
Your faith will be tested by resistance -various trials
Stubborn-
having or showing dogged determination not to change one's attitude or position on something, especially in spite of good arguments or reasons to do so.
Faith it until you make it- can’t fake faith bc when the test comes- there will be evidence
-Let patience- its a choice bc development takes time.
-You will either let the trial and tribulation define you
Or- by Faith- we will choose to allow God’s Word- the Creator of the Universe define you. Who you are and where he is taking you.
Second step- open your mouth
Romans 10:8-10(NKJV)
8 But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith which we preach):
9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Matthew 12:34(NKJV)
34 Brood[f] of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
Romans 10:17(NKJV)
17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
2 Corinthians 4:13(NKJV)
13 And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, “I believed and therefore I spoke,” we also believe and therefore speak,
Proverbs 18:20-21(AMPC)
20 A man’s [moral] self shall be filled with the fruit of his mouth; and with the consequence of his words he must be satisfied [whether good or evil].
21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they who indulge in it shall eat the fruit of it [for death or life].
Matthew 17:19-20(NKJV)
19 Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why could we not cast it out?”
20 So Jesus said to them, “Because of your [e]unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.
Zechariah 4:7(AMPC)
7 For who are you, O great mountain [of human obstacles]? Before Zerubbabel [who with Joshua had led the return of the exiles from Babylon and was undertaking the rebuilding of the temple, before him] you shall become a plain [a mere [a]molehill]! And he shall bring forth the finishing gable stone [of the new temple] with loud shoutings of the people, crying, Grace, grace to it!
Hebrews 11:1-3AMPC)
11 Now faith is the assurance (the confirmation, [a]the title deed) of the things [we] hope for, being the proof of things [we] do not see and the conviction of their reality [faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses].
2 For by [faith—[b]trust and holy fervor born of faith] the men of old had divine testimony borne to them and obtained a good report.
3 By faith we understand that the worlds [during the successive ages] were framed (fashioned, put in order, and equipped for their intended purpose) by the word of God, so that what we see was not made out of things which are visible.
