What has Jesus Christ given to all who believe in Him…all who have acknowledged and confessed Him as Saviour and Lord…to those who have had a Genuine Salvation Experience?
Romans 10:9-11 AMPC
Because if you acknowledge and confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and in your heart believe (adhere to, trust in, and rely on the truth) that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart a person believes (adheres to, trusts in, and relies on Christ) and so is justified (declared righteous, acceptable to God), and with the mouth he confesses (declares openly and speaks out freely his faith) and confirms [his] salvation. The Scripture says, No man who believes in Him [who adheres to, relies on, and trusts in Him] will [ever] be put to shame or be disappointed.
Jesus gave, has given and gives:
1. A lifting for those who are downcast
2. An identity for those who have none
3. A home for the lost
4. The joy of Heaven for the sorrow of hell
5. Victory for defeat
6. Purity for filth
7. Righteousness for sin
8. Light for darkness
9. Beauty for ashes
10. Sweet Aroma for the stink of sin
11. A garment of Praise for the garment of heaviness
12. Joy and gladness for mourning
13. Soundness of mind for confusion
14. Courage for fear
15. Enduring Peace for storms and despair
16. His presence for aloneness or loneliness
17. Life in abundance instead of death, loss and destruction
18. Renewal, Newness for the old
19. Freshness for staleness
20. Hope for the hopeless
21. Deliverance for those who are bound.
22. Eternal life for a premature life-span
23. Good cheer for times of tribulation
24. Strength for weakness
25. Richies for poverty
And the list goes on…
But why is there a doubt in some believer’s heart about these eternal truths and more often than not some confessions and prayers seems lacking in true faith?
Luke 6:45 NKJV
45 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.
What has filled a man’s heart soon overflows be it good or evil. Be it faith or fear.
Faith or fear is activated by speaking forth what has been revealed within and acting upon that which is spoken.
Romans 10:8 (KJV)
8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach
A child of God is graced to fill his or her life with faith by the hearing of the Word of God. The fullness of faith causes an overflow into the heart and flows to the mouth ready to be spoken. When spoken manifestation follows.
It is a faith-filled life that can speak faith-filled words that bring about manifestations of faith.
There is so much available to a child of God in faith. That if such is not fully a partaker nor a diligent participant he or she brings displeasure to God.
Hebrews 11:6 AMPC
But without faith it is impossible to please and be satisfactory to Him. For whoever would come near to God must [necessarily] believe that God exists and that He is the rewarder of those who earnestly and diligently seek Him [out].
Jesus’s life speech and action were so faith aligned that God himself affirmed him. God wants to affirm everyone of his children.
Luke 9:35(AMPC)
35 Then there came a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is My Son, My Chosen One or [a]My Beloved; listen to and yield to and obey Him!
James 1:19 NIV
19 My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry
Romans 10:17 KJV
17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
To grow our faith we must pay attention to hearing clearly and correctly, we must diligently meditate upon and dutifully study God’s Word and the Holy Ghost will birth the revelation of that Word…He will enable us to skillfully apply it accurately to circumstances and also grows in us patience as we await the sure manifestation of the God’s word.
John 14:26-27 AMPC
But the Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, Standby), the Holy Spirit, Whom the Father will send in My name [in My place, to represent Me and act on My behalf], He will teach you all things. And He will cause you to recall (will remind you of, bring to your remembrance) everything I have told you. Peace I leave with you; My [own] peace I now give and bequeath to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. [Stop allowing yourselves to be agitated and disturbed; and do not permit yourselves to be fearful and intimidated and cowardly and unsettled.]
Matthew 7:24 NIV
“Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
John 2:5 KJV
His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it.
James 2:14-26 ESV
Faith Without Works Is Dead
14 What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?
There is the hearing by the Word of God that builds faith, the saying of faith-Words that connects needs to the Power of God. And the doing of faith that brings us into obtaining the manifestation of what God’s Power has brought.
Faith is not fully formed until it is spoken and acted upon. It is not enough to know the Word of God, it must be believed, put into action consistently so much so that it defines who we are as Christians, the people of faith: doers of the word, blessed in what we do.
James 1:22-25 New King James Version (NKJV)
22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; 24 for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. 25 But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.
James 1:22 ESV
22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
Joshua 1:8 AMPC
This Book of the Law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe and do according to all that is written in it. For then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall deal wisely and have good success.
Finally;
Romans 12:1-2 MSG
So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.
Amen and glory be to God!
The Message Bearer
Cornelius Bella
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