Want Your Faith "Super-Sized?"
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Important Scripture on Faith
Luke 17:5-6 NIV
2 Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is--his good, pleasing and perfect will.
3 For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the measure of faith God has given you.
Ephesians 2:8-9
8For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:9Not of works, lest any man should boast .
22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness,goodness, faith,23Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
All Christians at some time are like the disciples in Luke 17:5-6, "Oh I wish I had more faith." Sometimes we think maybe we can conjure up more faith by "praying hard", "believing more", or more often, working hard to convince God to give us more faith, or what ever false notion you may think of. But, the fact of the matter is that when we accept "the Divine Persuasion" in reading or hearing about God's salvation, and accept that Salvation through Jesus dying on the cross, then in fact, by the Grace of God we are given all the grace and faith we need (Eph 2:8-9 & Gal 5:22-23). Out of the God's Love, He begins the relationship with Him that we need and that relationship with Him is indeed what we call faith. From the Divine Persuasion we receive Divine Salvation and from a Divine Loving Relationship with God. God gives us that Relationship (Faith), we can do nothing to earn it, and that is the way He wants it..
In the Loving Personal Relationship with God we call Faith, we receive all the faith we need to do God's work on this earth. Enough is enough, our faith need not be 'Super-sized', we must in faith know God will not withhold faith as to cause us to falter. Our Job is to Trust! Faith is a noun, a something that God gives us. Trust is an action word, an imperative verb, a command Jesus gave us to do! Our job is to Trust God and thereby Trust the Living Christ- Jesus. Romans 12:1-2
We must know, absolutely embrace God's love for us and understand that in our relationship with Him, our Faith, just as a good parent will do, God will protect us and lift us up in all our circumstances. We must simply and in humility Trust God. Not trusting God is "our" problem. Jesus in John 14:1 commanded us to Trust Him!
We are told not to worry in Matthew 6:25-34 because we do not because we do not fully, completely, and in humility trust and allow God to guide our live. We worry because we want to be in control.
When the storms of life seem to overwhelm us and we think we are going to drown as the disciples did, we are fearful because we do not Trust God, Matthew 8:23-27. Trust God and He will calm your inner raging storms.
People most often live in fear not depending on and trusting Jesus as we should, but in humility, trusting, and calling on Jesus, "Lord, Save me", He will save you, but we must trust in His will for our lives. Jesus triumphed over evil BECAUSE He trusted God in His established, faithful, day to day Personal relationship with God Matthew 14:22-33 and Matthew 26:36-46.(For my testimony to this read- "Self-Confidence")
The scenes go on from the Bible. Even the disciples who saw Jesus were failing their Personal Relationship with Him and not trusting Him. Jesus must have wanted to scream at them, but in love and patience, He continued to teach them. It is our job to trust our God-given Faith, Trust God, and Trust Jesus. We cannot feel God is in the job of Super-Sizing Faith. There is no need to super-size as quantity of faith is not important, what he already gives us can move mountains. I ask you, "How much more faith do you really need?" Again, our job is to Trust God and Trust Jesus.
Finally, The Bottom Line, The Main Point: Faith is not something we touch, taste, or see, Faith is the Loving Relationship with God that we feel and is freely given to us by God. A Personal Relationship that God out of Love for us desires with us. Faith changes us but, we remember to that circumstances of and in our lives affects many things. "Faith does not shield us from the pain and difficulties of life, it does not undo the past, and will not guarantee a particular future." *1 Faith is our Personal Relationship with God. When we accept Christ as our Savior, God starts it, God initiates it, and God activates it because God truly desires That Relationship with us.
Faith-Our Relationship with God, this most important thing in our lives, is the means through which we face life, life with all its joys and sorrows, its gains and loses, its failures and successes, its opportunities and possibilities.*1
Trust, Our job is to Trust. "Trust God, Trust Jesus".
Thanks be to God.
© lonnie coggins
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*1) "Supersize My Faith Please", Michael Marsh,
http://interruptingthesilence.com/2010/10/03/supersize-my-faith-please-luke-175-10/
*1) "Supersize My Faith Please", Michael Marsh,
http://interruptingthesilence.com/2010/10/03/supersize-my-faith-please-luke-175-10/
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