FAITH - How We Can Believe & Not Doubt

FAITH - How We Can Believe & Not Doubt

James 1:5-7 EMTV: If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it shall be given to him. But let him ask in faith, doubting nothing, for he that doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. For let not that man suppose that he shall receive anything from the Lord;

　

It is impossible to serve or please GOD without faith! But we attempt to do so over and over again.

GOD IS NOT PLEASED WITH ALL OUR DOUBTS, but thanks be to GOD for his Grace and tender Mercies.



Daniel 3:14-18 KJV
(14) Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said unto them, Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, do not ye serve my gods, nor worship the golden image which I have set up?
(15) Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of music, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?
(16) Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter.
(17) If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king.
(18) But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.


　

It is not whether GOD can perform his word; It’s a matter of 1) If we can move beyond Believing that he can to Knowing he can & 2) Whether or not what we ask is in his will to be done.

We have to believe for what we ask in Jesus name while at the same time our request should be in line with his word which enables us to KNOW that regardless of the outcome that GOD can perform it.

Only when we can be as children; the children of GOD that we truly are; can we activate the faith the pleases GOD!

For it is children; not adults, young adults, adolescents, or teenagers that trust and never doubt their parents. This is the kind of belief and faith that GOD loves.

Only when we align and subject ourselves to GOD’S word can we be changed. Once we are changed and have let go of our efforts to change GOD to justify our plans and begin to do a good work in God’s plans will things become less difficult.

Much of our frustrations in life come from us attempting to know better than Our Father God which arts in Heaven. Once we acknowledge, he is Lord and submit ourselves to his word, let go of all of our selfish ambitions, vain glory, and sinful pride can we position ourselves to receive the peace of God that surpasses all understanding.

Then we can truly be the light and the salt of the earth that God has call us to be.

Romans 12:1-3 KJV
(1) I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
(2) And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
(3) For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.


　

Summary

What do we want?

We want and desire to have faith greater than the size of a mustard seed. Like

Psalm 1:3 The person that is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither and whatever they do prospers

How Do We Get It?

We get there by subjecting ourselves to God’s word which gives us strength and power. We can only receive this strength and power by knowing his word and we can only know his word by the reading and hearing of his word.

2 Timothy 2:15 Study to show thyself approved unto God

Romans 10:17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God

Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me

Ephesians 6:10-18 Put the full armor of God

Psalm 34:14 Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it

Exodus 20:1-17 God’s Commandments

James 1:5-7 Believe and don’t doubt

Hebrews 11:1 Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen

Matthew 22:37 “‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

Matthew 7:7 Ask and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

Philippians 4:6-9 Be careful for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your request be made known unto God. 7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. 8 Finally, brethen, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and I there be any praise, think on these things. 9 Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you

Minister Lou Wiggins