We have been teaching how to live and walk by faith since before the beginning of The Spoken Word Church! It IS what JESUS said is essential! HE said "The just shall live by faith" (Romans 1:17; Galatians 3:11; Hebrews 10:38)! Today's "Grace Inspirations" by Joseph Prince is another example of this very thing!
BELIEVING IS RECEIVING
Mark 5:28–29 For she said, “If
only I may touch His clothes, I shall be made well.”
Immediately the fountain
of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of the
affliction.
You have heard people of the
world say, “I will believe it only when I see it.” Generally, that is the way
the world thinks. But God’s ways are not like the ways of the world. The world
says, “If I can’t feel it or see it, I cannot believe the miracle is here.” God
says, “If you believe it before you feel it or see it, you will see your
miracle.”
Believing first before seeing the
evidence of what we are believing for is called faith. Faith is like a spark
and Jesus is the dynamite powder.
In the story of the healing of
the woman with the issue of blood, there were many people who touched Jesus
(see Mark 5:31), but nothing happened to them. They didn’t touch Him in faith.
But when the woman who had been bleeding for 12 years came to Him and touched
Him in faith, He felt power leave His body (see Mark 5:30), and it sparked off
an explosion of healing in the woman’s body!
Hearing about how good, kind and
loving Jesus was fired her faith to believe that He could and would heal her.
So convinced was she (even when the condition in her body was still evident)
that she said, “If only I may touch His clothes, I shall be made well.” Did she
experience her healing first before she believed? No, she believed first in
Jesus’ goodness and power, acted in faith and only then felt the healing in her
body.
In the same way, God wants you to
believe in His goodness and love toward you. He wants you to know how willing
He is to act on your behalf to bless you, and how, with Christ, He will freely
give you every good thing (see Romans 8:32).
He wants you to declare by faith
that all is and shall be well with you, and to expect to see just that. And
then, no matter how long you have had the problem, no matter how bad the
experts say it is, an explosion of healing and restoration will take place, and
you will receive what you are believing for!
AMEN! Faith IS the SUBSTANCE of things hoped for (Hebrews 11:1)! THAT means that FAITH, which comes by hearing (and hearing and hearing) the Word of God (Romans 10:17) GIVES substance to our hope, causing the manifestation of what we believe! SO, find out from the Word of God what belongs to you as a child of God and then hear and hear and hear that WORD over and over and over until YOUR faith grows. Then speak the WORD and watch God work! AMEN! Here is Hillsong with "Say The Word":
Shalom in Him!
