FAITH COMES BY HEARING THE WORD OF GOD.
If your
faith is small, if it's speck sized, like a mustard seed,
that's as big as you need. God's mighty power works,
not from the perspective of how big the seed is, but
whether or not the seed is planted and watered and the
weeds are kept out.
Confess the Word. Confess the promises. Keep speaking the Word.
Water that Word with more positive confession. One day, doubts
will be replaced with firm conviction. What you say is what you get.
Several times a day for months on end, confess out loud
who you are in Christ, what you can do in Christ and the result you want to see in Him. Your faith comes by hearing and hearing the Word.
I have a positive "self-talk" audio tape. I confessed the principles
and promises of God I want to live onto it. Instead of reading
a list everyday, I plug in the tape and confess right along with
it. Some people use a book with positive confessions written in
it and read that out loud. Others make their own script to read
and confess. I use both the script and tape method, as well as
speak the promises of God out loud from memory when the
pressure is on.
Do you see how powerful and mighty God is? Do you see now that
God will work in YOU if you plant a faith seed even as small as
a speck, like the tiny grain of mustard seed? Mighty is our God
who wills to work in YOU, IF YOU WILL BELIEVE, if you will have
a little seed of faith!
When the disciples asked Jesus to increase their faith, he told
them if they had faith as a seed and if they would say unto the
impossible, to do this or that, then the impossible would obey
their word.
The increase to God's kingdom will be unfathomable if all Christians
live with this thorough knowledge of Him and demonstrate spiritual
power like this!
1 Corinthians 1:17
For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel:
not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be
made of none effect.
But we preach Christ crucified,...Christ the power of God,
and the wisdom of God.
1 Corinthians 2:4
And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words
of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but
in the power of God.
May we rise up to speak according to the Christ in us, in demonstration
of God's mighty, spiritual power! Imagine how many new people would
start coming to our churches or fellowships because the lame man, who
lived down the road all his life, got healed and saved? That's an
incredible witness to the name of Christ and the power of God.
People would get saved and know the power of God, not through our
persuasive words and winning personalities, but because of the
demonstrated power of God at work in us. Amen.
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