I have been reading Kenneth E. Hagin's "Faith Food" for over 30 years and I have found them to be as fresh and new as the first time I ever read them! Today's is a great, simple look at faith and how to operate in it!
FAITH DEFINED
"For verily I say unto you, that whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith" (Mark 11:23).
Just after Jesus had demonstrated the God-kind of faith, He defined it. Mark 11:23 is Jesus' definition of the God-kind of faith. He described it as the kind of faith in which:
(1) A person believes in his heart
(2) Then, a person says with his mouth what he believes in his heart
(3) And it comes to pass
God used that kind of faith to create the world in the beginning. God believed that what He said would come to pass! So He said, "Let there be an earth." And there was an earth. In fact, He created everything, the sun, the moon, the stars, the plants, and the animals, everything except man by believing what He said would come to pass. Then God said it. And it came to pass. That is the God-kind of faith!"
Confession: "Whosever shall say 'What I believe in my heart, and say with my mouth, shall come to pass. I live and operate in the God-kind of faith.'"
AMEN! Another of my daily readings made this statement: Knowledge of God's Word does NOT come from just study, but through obedience! I LOVE that! We will only ever really know the Word that we choose to obey! We always say "Obedience brings blessings", but equally true is that obedience brings understanding. Do you know someone for whom the Word of God just makes so much sense? THAT person is a DOER of the Word! Make the quality decision to immediately obey everything you see in the Word of God to do. You have Holy Spirit as your Helper Who will show you, step by step, how to walk it out. That Word will become so clear to you that you will begin to think like God without really trying! THAT is the life of faith that He has always intended for His people to live in! The life of abundance! John 10:10:
10 The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance [to the full, till it overflows].
AMEN! Here is Hillsong with "Like Incense - Sometimes By Step":
Shalom in Him!
