Faith is a choice!
Anyone can ask a question.
That doesn't mean
that there is an answer to it.
If you hear a message
that strengthens your faith, review it over and over again.
Satan is called the
prince of the power of the air (Ephesians 2:2).
The people of this
world are under the control of the wicked one (1 John 5:19).
We live in a cold,
dark, oppressive place.
Evil and wrong
spirits are influencing all around (Ephesians 6:12).
The enemy is trying
to stamp out God's truth that's revealed to you.
Hold on tight to
God's revelation in you (Luke 8:15).
The enemy comes to
steal God's Word from you (Mark 4:15).
If you drift from
your personal responsibility to walk by faith, it moves you toward the belief
it's all up to God.
God provides for us,
but He won't believe for us.
What's provided by
grace must be taken by faith or it won't be enjoyed.
You won't experience
it unless you take hold of it.
1 Timothy 6:12 A (NKJV)
Fight the good fight
of faith, lay hold on eternal
life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in
the presence of many witnesses.
If your faith didn't
work, it wasn't faith.
The devil will try to
get you to blame God.
It wasn't God's
fault.
It was you.
The perfect One will
never let you down, but it is we who have fallen short.
Nehemiah 8:10 D (NKJV)
The joy of
the Lord is your strength.”
Where does the joy of
the Lord come from?
It comes from having fellowship with Him.
If you have real
faith, you can have fellowship with Him.
1 John 1:3 (NKJV)
3 that
which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have
fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with
the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ.
Fellowship means to
share.
You can't fellowship by yourself.
If you're communing
with God, you're not by yourself.
You're with God.
It's like a shared
meal.
You sharing the food on the table with someone else.
What's in you is in
me after we've eaten.
Here's an offer from
Jesus Christ.
Revelation 3:20 (NKJV)
20 Behold, I
(Jesus) stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens
the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me.
When you fellowship,
you can share more than just food.
You can share thoughts, dreams, feelings, priorities, passions, and desires.
It's great to share
with people.
It's much greater to share with Jesus.
That was God plan in the beginning.
When people sinned,
they withdrew from fellowship with God, but still He reaches out to them for
fellowship.
Genesis 3:8 (NKJV)
8 And
they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden
in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the
presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
We have ah
opportunity to commune and have fellowship with God.
1 John 3:1 (NKJV)
Behold what manner of love the
Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God!
God considers us His children.
1 John 1:4 (NKJV)
And these things we
write to you that your joy may be full.
Stuff can't bring you
joy only fellowship with God can.
If you give God a
thought, He'll give you one right back.
James 4:8 (NKJV)
8 Draw
near to God and He will draw near to you.
Fellowship with God
is the source of faith in God.
1 John 1 (NKJV)
5 This
is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God
is light and in Him is no darkness at all.
6 If
we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do
not practice the truth.
Light allows you to
see.
Darkness takes it
away from you.
When you have
fellowship with God, you can see because He is sharing light with you.
Here are some
examples of darkness.
1. You don't know
what to do.
2. You don't know
where to go.
3. You don't know
what's wrong.
4. You don't know
what the problem is.
5. You don't know
what to do about it.
6. You don't know why
it's not working.
7. You don't know why
you don't have it yet.
Whatever you don't
understand is whatever you can't see.
When you or I don't
see it, we're not communing with God.
Don't knowing,
seeing, or understanding is darkness.
If we're communing
with God, He's going to show us how, when, and where.
The biggest problem
with walking by faith is trying to exercise faith without fellowship.
John 15:5 (NKJV)
Jesus speaking: “I am the vine, you are the branches.
He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without
Me you can do nothing.
Trying to exercise
faith principles apart from a living communion with God is futile.
It doesn't work.
Faith without
fellowship with God will only get you so far.
Some people have
faith in themselves and can only go as far as they can do.
When it comes to
faith in God, that's where the miracles happen.
Mark 11:22 (NKJV)
22 So
Jesus answered and said to them, “Have faith in God
The only way that we
can have faith in God is to walk with Him and to listen to Him throughout the
day.
How do we know how we
will receive from Him unless we hear from Him?
Nothing else will
substitute for having fellowship with Him.
1 John 1 (NKJV)
5 This
is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God
is light and in Him is no darkness at all.
6 If
we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do
not practice the truth.
7 But
if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one
another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His
Son cleanses us from all sin.
Keith Moore, Faith
Life Church
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