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Faith is the Key
God's word is the greatest evidence for your faith. "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path." Psalms 119:105 "So then FAITH comes by HEARING, and hearing by the word of God." Romans 10:17 God has always commanded His people to actively seek Him and to be aggressive about knowing the word of God and keeping the scriptures ever before them. Our carnal minds will go with our feelings and what sense knowledge tells us is happening in our environment. We have a choice of being victims or victors, of being overcomers or being overcome. The struggle comes in when we let our senses rule instead of our spirit. We must confess that we will use our little faith a lot of times and not let our carnal senses override our spirits and what God is telling us by His Spirit in our spirit. The Holy Spirit will nudge us and move on us to turn to God and trust in Him.
The concept of dwelling in them is repeated in the New Testament where Jesus tells us:
Trusting in God is essential because we need God. He always has an answer and knows the imperfections of our world. Redemption is God's grace "working everything to the good, for those who love God and are called according to His purpose." John 14:1 "DO NOT let your hearts be troubled (distressed, agitated). You believe in and adhere to and trust in and rely on God; believe in and adhere to and trust in and rely also on Me." COVENANT RELATIONSHIP COVENANT BLESSING Hebrews 4:14 Inasmuch then as we have a great High Priest Who has [already] ascended and passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession [of faith in Him]. 4:15 For we do not have a High Priest Who is unable to understand and sympathize and have a shared feeling with our weaknesses and infirmities and liability to the assaults of temptation, but One Who has been tempted in every respect as we are, yet without sinning.
4:16 Let us then fearlessly and confidently and boldly draw near to the throne of grace (the throne of God's unmerited favor to us sinners), that we may receive mercy [for our failures] and find grace to help in good time for every need [appropriate help and well-timed help, coming just when we need it]. 6 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].
 GOD IS YOUR SOURCE Key principles run throughout the Bible and demonstrate the principles of God's spiritual laws that work continuously in our lives. The first principle is that God is our source for all our needs. God meets us at the point of our need God sent Jesus as a propitation for our sin and to cleanse us when we miss the mark Jesus has sent the Holy Spirit to be our teacher, advocate, comforter, guide and prayer partner. He communicates with us by the inner witness and sometimes by stronger demonstrations such as an audible voice or by sending an angel or someone else to assist us. WE REAP WHAT WE SOW Galatians 6: 7 Do not be deceived and deluded and misled; God will not allow Himself to be sneered at (scorned, disdained, or mocked by mere pretensions or professions, or by His precepts being set aside.) [He inevitably deludes himself who attempts to delude God.] For whatever a man sows, that and that only is what he will reap. 2 Corinthians 9 6 [Remember] this: he who sows sparingly and grudgingly will also reap sparingly and grudgingly, and he who sows generously [that blessings may come to someone] will also reap generously and with blessings. 7 Let each one [give] as he has made up his own mind and purposed in his heart, not reluctantly or sorrowfully or under compulsion, for God loves (He takes pleasure in, prizes above other things, and is unwilling to abandon or to do without) a cheerful (joyous, "prompt to do it") giver [whose heart is in his giving]. Sowing a seed builds our faith and the Bible tells us that "the Just Shall Live By Faith." In Luke 6:38 Jesus said "Give, and [gifts] will be given to you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will they pour into [the pouch formed by] the bosom [of your robe and used as a bag]. For with the measure you deal out [with the measure you use when you confer benefits on others], it will be measured back to you."
Write down the scriptures you are basing your faith on and keep them in front of you. Your carnal mind wants a manifestation in the natural but you are looking to Jesus in the supernatural realm. As God told Habakuk write it down. As we "hasten by" or rush around with all the responsibilities of life we need to have a contract with God to refer to as Habakkuk did. Habakkuk 2:3-4 And the Lord answered me and said, Write the vision and engrave it so plainly upon tablets that everyone who passes may [be able to] read [it easily and quickly] as he hastens by. 3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time and it hastens to the end [fulfillment]; it will not deceive or disappoint. Though it tarry, wait [earnestly] for it, because it will surely come; it will not be behindhand on its appointed day. Matthew 6: 33 But seek (aim at and strive after) first of all His kingdom and His righteousness (His way of doing and being right), and then all these things taken together will be given you besides. We are not left to our own resources. God meets us at the point of our need. The first step we must take is to turn our lives over to God. We depend on Jesus as our personal savior to work out redemption in all the areas of our life affected by the curse due to original sin. EXPECT A MIRACLE We must look to God as our personal guide, THE source of our life and EXPECT HIM TO DO FOR US WHAT ONLY HE CAN DO. After we do all we can do we must look to God and have confidence in Him to do all He can do.
Learn to be silent unto God, And let Him mold thee to His will God seems to love to work by paradoxes and contradictions. In the transformations of grace, the bitter is the base of the sweet, night is the mother of day and death is the gate of life. Many people want to have power. But, how is power produced? At the large powerhouse where the trolley engines are supplied with electricity, one may hear the hum and roar of countless wheels, How do they make the power? Just by the revolution of those wheels and the magnetic friction they produce. The friction creates the electric current. Though we have more modern technology now, In this same manner, when God wants to bring more power into our lives, He brings more pressure. He is generating spiritual force by friction. Some of us do not like it. Some of us do not understand. We try to run away from the pressure instead of getting the power and using it to rise above the painful cause. O troubled soul, beneath the rod Your Father speaks-be still, be still; Learn to be silent unto God, And let Him mold thee to His will. Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward Hebrews 12:11 Let us abide in Him. It is much easier to keep the fire burning than to rekindle it after it has gone out. Let us not have to remove the cinders and ashes from our hearthstones every day and kindle a new flame; but let us keep it burning and never let it expire. Among the ancient Greeks the sacred fire was never allowed to go out. So, in a higher sense, let us keep the heavenly flame aglow upon the altar of our hearts. It takes much less effort to maintain a good habit than to form it. A true spiritual habit once formed becomes a spontaneous tendency of our being, and we grow into delightful freedom in following it. Let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works (Hebrews 6:1); whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing (Philippians 3:16). Every spiritual habit begins with difficulty and effort and watchfulness. But if we will only let it get thoroughly established, it will become a channel along which the currents of life will flow with divine spontaneousness and freedom.
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments 1 John 5:2
 Lovest thou me?" the Master asks of each disciple. He expects our first and highest love for Himself, personally, and He has a right to it. More than all our service, more than all our work to build up a cause, He desires our personal devotion to Him. Mary's gift was precious because it was personal. Ye have the poor with you always; but me ye have not always (Mark 14:7), was His tender suggestion of a danger which defeats His purpose-our being more occupied with the work of Christ than with Christ Himself. We need the love of Christ in order to fit us for His work. Nothing else will give it its true aim and center; nothing else will sustain us amid its pressures. When Jesus was about to send Simon to take care of His flock, He did not ask Him, "Lovest thou my sheep and my lambs?" He asked, "Lovest thou me?" Mere love for people will not enable us to be true to them; but love for Christ will give us a reflected love for others that will enable us to touch them for Him and to bless them as our direct touch never could.
That take, and give unto them for me and thee Matthew 17:27
There is a beautiful touch of loving thoughtfulness in the account of Christ's miracle at Capernaum in providing the tribute money. After the reference to Peter's interview with the tax collector, the Scriptures add, when he was come into the house, Jesus prevented him (17:25); that is, anticipated him, as the old Saxon word means. Jesus arranged for the need before Peter had to speak about it at all and sent him down to the sea to find the piece of gold in the mouth of the fish. So the Lord is always thinking in advance of our needs. He loves to save us from embarrassment. He anticipates and cares by laying up His loving acts and providing before the emergency comes. Then with exquisite tenderness the Master adds: That take, and give to them for me and thee. He puts Himself first in the embarrassing need and bears the heavy end of the burden for His distressed and suffering child. He makes our cares His cares, our sorrows His sorrows, our shame His shame. He is able to be touched with the feeling of our infirmities (Hebrews 4:15).
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As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him—Colossians 2:6
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