It takes faith
"Without faith it is impossible to please God. (Hebrews 11:6) "
We need faith for all matters pertaining to God. Salvation requires faith. Forgiveness requires faith. Healing requires faith. Deliverance requires faith. Our breakthroughs require faith. Yet as Christians we often struggle with exercising our faith.
Think about this. Even our daily activities require faith. As humans this is the minimum level of faith we all have. It means God has already given us a measure of faith as a starting point. Let's face it, we do a lot of things without thinking most of the time. We don't stop to rationalise everything, do we? When you open the fridge door, do you stop to think if the door is going to come off it's hinges? You don't stop to check and examine the armchair in your living room every single time you want to sit down, do you? You and I just simply plod on with our daily activities without giving much thought to things.
If in the natural, we can exercise faith without much thought, then we must get to a similar level in supernatural matters too. Faith must become automatic. So if the doctor says, 'sorry I can't help you', faith should automatically kick in. We should think and declare, 'I know Someone who can. By His stripes I am healed, therefore I will get over this'. Or when the bills come and there is no money in the pot, faith should say 'God is my Jehovah Jireh, therefore I trust He will provide. I don't know how but He will.'
Without faith it is impossible to please God. God wouldn't ask us to do the impossible, especially knowing how much having faith in Him, means to Him. Lets build our faith. Seek Him and we will find Him. Faith is a daily walk. And God says it is attainable.
© October 2006
We need faith for all matters pertaining to God. Salvation requires faith. Forgiveness requires faith. Healing requires faith. Deliverance requires faith. Our breakthroughs require faith. Yet as Christians we often struggle with exercising our faith.
Think about this. Even our daily activities require faith. As humans this is the minimum level of faith we all have. It means God has already given us a measure of faith as a starting point. Let's face it, we do a lot of things without thinking most of the time. We don't stop to rationalise everything, do we? When you open the fridge door, do you stop to think if the door is going to come off it's hinges? You don't stop to check and examine the armchair in your living room every single time you want to sit down, do you? You and I just simply plod on with our daily activities without giving much thought to things.
If in the natural, we can exercise faith without much thought, then we must get to a similar level in supernatural matters too. Faith must become automatic. So if the doctor says, 'sorry I can't help you', faith should automatically kick in. We should think and declare, 'I know Someone who can. By His stripes I am healed, therefore I will get over this'. Or when the bills come and there is no money in the pot, faith should say 'God is my Jehovah Jireh, therefore I trust He will provide. I don't know how but He will.'
Without faith it is impossible to please God. God wouldn't ask us to do the impossible, especially knowing how much having faith in Him, means to Him. Lets build our faith. Seek Him and we will find Him. Faith is a daily walk. And God says it is attainable.
© October 2006
posted by Blessed Blogger at 7:38 AM
1 Comments:
Andrea:
You are correct, healing of any type, which includes casting out evil spirits requires faith from that person requiring healing. It has been said that those without proper faith, even without proper belief will not be healed or "delivered", as then they have accepted the spirit of Satan within them and as such there is no healing to a member of Satan's domain.
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