Yesterday I posted a blog that I titled TRUTH UNVEILED and in that blog I believe that there is unveiled truth every child of God needs to hear and not only hear but to become doers of that which they have heard.
James 1:22
But be ye doers of the word , and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
It is a veiled truth that needs to be unveiled and in the unveiling revelation needs to be brought forth in the lives of every child of God because down deep I believe that the children of God really do desire to hear and want the truth but wanting truth has to get past the desire stage.
Yesterday I told you that we as children of God must seek wisdom and then we must have understanding.
Why?
Because we can not believe and stand for something that we do not understand
In order to stand and believe for healing against the onslaught of the body and the negative responses of those who do not believe, we must have wisdom and understanding concerning the promises of God.
In order to stand and to believe for prosperity against all the onslaught of bills and pressures and a failing economy,
To believe for prosperity in the midst of poverty we must have wisdom and understanding concerning the promises of God.
In order to believe for deliverance and freedom, to believe for the perfect law of liberty in our lives we must have understanding concerning His promises
James 1:25
But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty , and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
To believe so that we can walk and be complete in Him filled with all the fullness of Him we need to have wisdom and understanding concerning the word of God
Col 2:9
For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
You must have wisdom and understanding concerning those things that you believe in so that you can fight the good fight of faith and receive that which has been given to you.
Prov 4:7
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
Prov 24:3-4
Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established:
And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches.
FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHTOF FAITH
Col 2:6
As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:
The same way that you received salvation, the same way that you became a Son of the living God,
Is the same way that you are healed, is the same way that you are healed, delivered and made free?
It is the same way that you prosper in the Lord, the same way that you are forgiven and the same way that you receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost.
As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:
You have to believe that which he did is done and then by faith reach out and grasp what the Lord Jesus Christ has already provided for you.
It is a work of faith
It will take effort and you must fight the good fight of faith
1 Tim 6:12
Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.
You can not be passive in this good fight; you can not be a conscientious objector.
A conscientious objector is someone who does not believe in going to war, they do not want to bear arms, they do not want to fight, and they do not want to engage in battle.
They are content and passive to allow the enemy to do what ever it wants to do.
Yes they hate what the enemy is doing, yes they hate what is taking place at the hands of the enemy but they are not willing to fight the good fight to destroy the enemy and the work that he is doing.
And whether the enemy is a people who is bearing arms against the country that you live in, whether the enemy is cancer or a disease that is waging a war against your body, whether the enemy is poverty trying to keep you in financial disaster,
We must fight the good fight of faith.
You can not be passive, inactive or submissive.
You must fight the good fight of faith, you must move past the place of hoping and desiring and move into the place of knowing and fighting, you must know that it was provided for you through the atonement of Christ and that which He provided for you is yours and you are not settling for anything less that what He provided for you.
What you receive from God is going to come because of the application of your faith.
FAITH CAN NOT BE ALONE IT MUST HAVE WORKS
James 2:17-18
Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.
Listen to what Paul is saying
Faith alone is dead, you may say that you have faith but it is your works, deeds and actions that verify that you do indeed have faith.
The scripture is very clear; faith without works deeds or actions is dead.
James 2:14-17
What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?
If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?
Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
Faith that is alone is dead.
VERSE: 19
Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
This scripture is straight forward; there is no room for misinterpretation,
Do you believe that there is one God?
Big deal
The devils also believe.
But let it be known o vain man that faith without works is dead.
Do you hear what the word of God is saying?
It is saying that at this point in scripture?
You haven’t done anything that the devil hasn’t done?
The devil believes also.
Just a passive type of knowledge that acknowledges a truth is not faith, Oh vain man know that faith without works is dead
It is action that releases the power within faith. You must enter into a place where you are past being passive about what belongs to you.
How do you receive the promises of God?
You receive them by faith but more specifically you receive them through faith that acts,
How do you act through faith to receive the promises of God?
You believe in that which he has given to you through redemption and you start doing things that you could not do before
Take healing for example.
You begin meditating on the word of God concerning healing, you begin speaking and proclaiming that you are healed, not hopefully, not if God wills it, not if it is Gods will, but you proclaim that you are healed because two thousand years ago by the stripes that he received it provided for your healing, you begin praising God for your healing and then by faith you begin moving limbs that would not move before.
Hear me
Only sick people talk about how sick that they are a person who is not sick ever talks about how sick that they are.
You have to believe when you pray and all this is faith in action, all of this is faith with works.
Matt 9:20-22
And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment:
For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole.
But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.
Matt 9:18-19
While he spake these things unto them, behold, there came a certain ruler, and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is even now dead: but come and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live.
And Jesus arose, and followed him, and so did his disciples.
Mark 5:36
As soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken, he saith unto the ruler of the synagogue, Be not afraid, only believe.
Matt 8:8-10
The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.
For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.
Three instances of faith with actions, three instances of healing where faith did something and every time that those people were healed they were healed according to their faith.
TO GOD BE THE GLORY
But in the word of God there is an instance where the individual being healed did not exercise his faith at all to be healed, the reason that he was being healed was for the purpose of glorifying God.
This man does not show his faith through his works and he does not show his faith through his deeds,
In fact when Jesus passes by this man does absolutely nothing.
It is Jesus who notices this man and it is His disciples that ask him why this man is blind.
I want you to grasp this, this blind man does not respond as Bartimeaus responded with cries for mercy, this man does not respond as the ten lepers who approached Jesus for healing, this man does not exercise his faith as the Centurion did, as the woman with the issue of blood did, as Jaruis did concerning his daughter.
This man does nothing.
John 9:1-3
And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.
And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?
Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
VERSE 6-7
When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay,
And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.
Now follow me,
The pool of Siloam is over ¾ of a mile from the place where Jesus has spit on the ground and made clay and placed it on this blind mans eyes and Jesus expects this blind man to walk through the busy streets of Jerusalem over ¾ of a mile with mud and clay dripping from his eyes, running down his face and He wants him to go wash in the pool of Siloam.
This man is going to suffer ridicule, he is going to suffer mocking and He is going to feel humiliated as he gropes through the city streets trying to go to the pool of Siloam.
This man could have and even might have felt like saying don’t place mud and clay on my eyes, you’re not going to make a fool out of me,
I am not able to see and now you want to put dirt and mud in my face.
How can I walk ¾ of a mile to the pool of Siloam I am blind.
The reason that he was required to do this is because he did not come with faith demonstrating works and because faith being alone is dead he leaves Christ with faith demonstrating works,
Go wash in the pool of Siloam.
Acting in faith is vital to receiving from God
You must believe to the place where it causes action
Either coming or going.
So how do we act in faith for finances?
Let me give you revelation
I believe that the number one reason that God has instructed us to give is to appreciate prosperity.
To appreciate the promise that already has been given
Most of God’s children have been taught that the reason for giving is because it is required, it is there duty and I believe that tithing should be and is required.
But tithing does not bring prosperity,
Tithing is 10% and 10% is the minimal giving and many of God’s children even resent the minimal giving.
But when there is joy in the 10% it will escalate to higher giving.
Giving is an act of faith and the more that is given, the more action is being expressed, the more life is being released, the more faith is being released and the more access to the provision that has already been given.
To those who receive this veiled truth and it becomes unveiled in their lives they are going to find the awesomeness of Gods way and God’s plan to release what you have so that you can have more to release.
The plan of God is for you to give so that you can receive.
Luke 6:38
Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.
This scripture in Luke pertains to every promise of God.
Prove 3:9-10
Honor the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:
So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.
Notice how honor is given to the Lord, it is given through your substance and when honor is given unto the lord He fills your barns and your presses shall burst forth with new wine.
Truth unveiled.