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Bible Study What is Faith

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Fight the good fight of faith
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Hebrews 11:1-40

We all have different things that we pray for in our lives. Our prayers are usually for the salvation of someone, finances, health or whatever the need may be. When it all seems impossible to our fleshly eyes and understanding then we have to rely on the faith of Gods promises to turn every situation around for the witness of Gods word. We are a generation that wants it and wants it now, but by faith if we wait on Gods timing which is always perfect then the blessings will be much greater and the witness of the blessing will bring others unto salvation of Jesus Christ. When we rely on faith, it brings with it Gods approval or Gods favor. God will grant unto his children the desires of their hearts through his grace, but also you must have forgiveness in your heart for others that do you wrong.
(Mark 11:24,25)

We believe through faith that God commanded the universe to be just by speaking it all into existence, even though we did not hear Him speak it or see it happen. We believe because we have seen signs and wonders of the glory of the Lord through his marvelous works that we know in our hearts can only come from God.

How can we please God if he doesn’t even know who we are. Our good intentions and or good works towards helping others are only temporal for the moment and fade away like a drop of rain when the sun shines on it and it disappears. We can only please God by accepting his son Jesus through faith to believe in who God said he was in his word and to those who seek and find him are rewarded with eternal life with the father.

Our faith is in Jesus whom the Father has sent to us to reconcile us back to the grace of God. Jesus sits at the right hand of the father making intercession for all those who believe and come to him through a repentant heart that wants to know the Lord. Faith takes us through every trial and tribulation and brings us out victoriously if we only believe in the one whom God has sent.

We need the faith of Jesus everyday in our lives to stand strong in times of trials and tribulations. When our world seems to be crashing in on us is when we only have to look up to the heavens and know that the promises of God will manifest in our life if we only trust and obey his word. We have an adversary called Satan who wants nothing more than to try and steal our faith and have us denounce Jesus in our life as he wants to devour the children of God and he will use any measure he can to accomplish this.

Psalms 91:3 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.

Isaiah 54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.

2Corinthians 10:3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
2Corinthians 10:4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds ;)
2Corinthians 10:5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
2Corinthians 10:6 and having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.

James 4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
 
2Corinthians 10:5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

Debbie, this quote that you gave is such an important one that I have used so many time as a psychologist. Many folk have been set free of evil thoughts that come into their minds. I tell them, "look, the first thought does not belong to you", I try and teach people to evaluate their thoughts as compared with what they know of how Jesus thought. If their thoughts are not what Jesus would think, forget it!! We all have rich imaginations, BUT, if they are contrary to good thinking, forget them!!

In other words, Jesus is our standard to what we compare life in general. We need to have His mind, His thoughts, His imaginations, of coarse they wouldn't be His exact thought, but if He wouldn't think it, or imagine it, we shouldn't either. Freedom in our minds give us so much peace.
 
Chopper you are so right as many of our thoughts or imaginations come from our emotions at the time we think of things we need not be thinking of. This is why we need to know the mind of Christ as He is in us and we in Him.

Clark you said a mouth full there in just five words as that is what it all boils down to, amen.
 
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