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Christians &
Faith
Faith & Hope
versus Emotions
The following 8 contrasts on faith are taken from a "Bible Love Notes" blogspot from May of 2019, entitled "Faith is Full of Contrasts." This account has been edited for clarification, but basic credit is given to them.
https://biblelovenotes.blogspot.com/2019/07/faith-is-full-of-contrasts.html
Christian faith is more than just a belief. It’s a way of life. It’s active and alive, and it's full of contrasts:
1. Faith listens - Psalm 46:10; James 1:19
But it also speaks - Mark 16:15; Colossians 4:6
2. Faith receives comfort - 2nd Corinthians 1:3-4
But it also gives comfort - 2nd Corinthians 1:5-6
3. Faith is blessed - Ephesians 1:3
But it also blesses - Matthew 20:25-28
4. Faith rests - Matthew 11:28
But it also works - James 2:26
5. Faith prospers - Jeremiah 29:11
But it also sacrifices - Mark 8:34
6. Faith heals - James 5:16
But it also suffers - 2nd Corinthians 4:16-17; 1st Peter 4:1
7. Faith loves - 1st Peter 4:8
But it also hates - Romans 12:9
8. Faith is valued - Matthew 5:16
But it's also despised - John 15:19
Faith in Christ is more than facts, and more than thoughts or worthy acts.
Christ tells me to count the cost, lay down my life, and pick up my cross.
Remember, only genuine faith in Christ can save and heal your broken life.
Sooooo many Christians need to be aware of these truths and the way scripture encompasses the full meaning of faith.
Also Hebrews 10:38 - you can understand why God is not pleased if we draw back from walking in faith! Hebrews 11:6 !!!
Faith in Time
or Outside Time?
The progression of time is in submission to the spiritual realm, not the other way around. Many of our premature judgments arise from a misunderstanding of how God works within the framework of time. It might help you to see time as a hologram that God created for us to live in like a classroom, where we can learn the lessons we need for eternal life. Why do I say this? Because scripture makes it clear to us that God can “see the begging from the end,” and vice versa. He can see all of time from where He is! Sounds like a hologram to me!
The Apostle Peter wrote, “But you must not forget this one thing, dear friends: A day is like a thousand years to the Lord, and a thousand years is like a day” (II Peter 3:8). This was not Peter using literary license to convey a thought. It was an understanding from someone who knew how the Lord operates on Earth as it is in Heaven.
What can happen in a day?
A family can be restored.
A prodigal can return home.
A betrayal can be redeemed.
A marriage can be saved.
A future can become hopeful.
A disease can be healed.
A nation can be saved.
When God is involved, we don’t need time to work these things out. We need faith in the One who can do in a single day what would take a thousand years to work out, if ever.
Some use words like “turnaround” or “breakthrough” to describe this phenomenon. These words describe in our minds what is taking place that produces these outcomes as a miraculous intervention by God where we see natural time and space yielding to eternal realities.
Our hope for these interventions should not rest on doctors or even holistic avenues, but must rest only on the Lord or our focus will shift and we will only see a thousand years of struggle. At that point, our hope will be replaced with despair. In a single day, the Lord can accomplish infinitely more than we could ask or imagine. That place of hope and faith is where miracles take place and come into the view of our mind and heart.
Some of the hurts that we suffer come because we’re not engaging our spirit. We can’t allow our feelings to run our lives. God wants us to be strong and have self‐control so we can rise up and be who He purposed for us to be. So we can step forward and obey what He tells us to do. Walk in a posture of faith, confidence, and self‐discipline by using the gifts of love, faith, forgiveness, and gratitude, and in doing so renew your mind, guard your heart, and take down the strongholds in your life that are holding you back.
Faith
& Gratitude
Get the Two Together! "As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk you in Him: rooted and built up in Him, and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.".– Colossians 2:6-7
Established in the faith and abounding with thanksgiving. These days it seems that's a rare combination.A lot of people have been taught faith over the last several years, and a lot of people have been taught to abound with thanksgiving. But it's been hard to set the two together. Faith folks want to confess the Word all the time, but they don't praise God very much. And those who like to praise God just want to jump and shout and dance and have a good time in the Lord. You can't get them to get very serious about the Word.
Success comes from combining the two, so do it! Put them together in your life. When you run into a challenge, don't just stand around grim-faced and white-knuckled holding on to your faith. Raise your hands high and praise. Start thanking God in the midst of what's happening around you. Keep thanking Him for the answer until it comes. Instead of just standing on the Word, let the joy of the Lord enable you to dance around on it a little. It will get you where you're going a whole lot faster...and both you and God will have a much better time on the way.
Faith is not a debate of the mind. It is a reality in the Spirit. If just the mind leads the fight, we lose. If just the heart (emotions) lead the battle, we lose. Only the Spirit can overcome, and this in essence changes (renews) the mind and get the heart in line. Consider this: They shall overcome by the blood of the Lamb and their testimony!
Start Speaking Faith
NOW!
"Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. A good man out of the good treasure of the heart brings forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things." - Matthew 12:34-35
Words won’t work without faith any more than faith will work without words! It takes them both to put the law of faith in motion. Many believers don’t realize that. They’ll continually speak words of doubt and unbelief, then they’ll jump up one day and say a couple of faith words and expect mountains to move—and to their dismay, they don’t. Why not?
Because as Matthew 12:34-35 says, it’s the words that come from the heart that produce results. The person who just throws in a couple of faith words now and then isn’t speaking them from the abundance of his heart, so they’re not effective.
Does that mean you shouldn’t start speaking words of faith until you’re sure you have the faith to back them?
No! Speaking words of faith is good spiritual exercise. If you want to receive healing by faith, for example, fasten your mind and your mouth on the Word of God where your health is concerned.
Instead of talking about how miserable you feel, quote Isaiah 53:5. Say, “Jesus was wounded for my transgressions. He was bruised for my iniquities. The chastisement of my peace was upon Him; and with His stripes, praise God, I was healed!”
If you’ll continue to think on those words, consider them and continue to say them, the truth in them will begin to sink in. They’ll take root in your heart and begin to grow. Eventually you really will be speaking from the abundance of your heart.
When that happens, it won’t matter what the circumstances look like. You’ll know you have what you’ve been believing for and the devil himself won’t be able to talk you out of it. You’ll cross the line from hope to faith, and you’ll start seeing those mountains move!
Guard Your Heart vs. Stuffing Emotions . . . pssst, when God instructs us to act in a certain way, He's not saying to hide our emotions.
putting on an act will NEVER replace the real man . . . or change reality . . . or renew the mind.
But, doing what God says will ! It will absolutely bend reality !
Proverbs 4:23 says, "Above all things guard your heart, for from it spring the issues of life."
Faith is
Not Blind!
Blind faith is not an accurate term. Faith is not blind; it is simply choosing to see things from God's perspective. Evidence of a Miracle Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.– Hebrews 11:1
Don’t ever short-circuit a miracle by trying to see it in progress! So many believers do that. They’ll lay hands on someone and pray for healing or deliverance and then, when they don’t see any immediate, outward change take place, they’ll withdraw their faith and assume nothing happened.
The Lord taught me an unforgettable lesson about that once when I was in Jamaica. I was preaching to a group of about 150 people in a church that was lighted only by a single kerosene lantern. It was so dark I couldn’t see anyone’s face. All I could see was my Bible and the feet of the man right in front of me.Suddenly I realized that I’d always depended on the facial expressions of the people I was preaching to to determine how my sermon was being received. Knowing what I did about faith, I knew that was dangerous. So I made a quality decision at that moment never to preach another sermon except by faith. I would not be swayed by the expressions of people.Before that series of meetings was over, I saw just how important that decision could be. The Jamaicans, who tend to show very little expression anyway, sat through every sermon without any outward reaction at all.One lady was completely healed of blindness during one of those meetings. She never let on that anything had taken place. She was almost rigid when she found me outside and said simply, “Brother Copeland, I was blind, but now I can see. Thank you.” That was all! A miracle had taken place, and by watching, you wouldn’t have been able to tell anything had happened at all.
Next time you’re tempted to evaluate what God is doing by the looks of things, don’t do it. Remember instead that it is faith, not appearances, that makes miracles happen. It’s the only real evidence that you need!
I repeat again from a previous page to remind you . . .
What God has to offer us DOES sound too good to be true, and yet it is Truth!
He forgives our sins and heals our diseases!
He takes our place of condemnation and suffers the punishment for us!
Some clues are that we need to:
* renew our minds - take on a new way of thinking
* guard our hearts - deal with the issues in them versus stuffing them or putting on a happy face
* confess our weaknesses and downfalls
* believe what He says when we don't see it . . . until we do see it
* choose to think on what He instructs us to think on
* walk by faith because that is the ONLY way to take hold of the rest
LRMT (LifeRegeneration Meridian Techniques) gives us tools to be able to do all of the above. . . . and these tools when filtered through scripture stand, and help us to stand.
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