Seated in heavenly places. Always.
Heaven is not moved by need, otherwise Haiti would be in perfect shape by now. I would have $1 million dollars, and there would be no poverty in the world.
Heaven is moved by faith.
Anytime i digress and start praying because of a need that has come up, be it financial, relational, spiritual, physical, mental, educational...... I will not be moved by need to pray. I will let my problem face God. I live out of the abundance of heaven. I am not impressed by any kind of lack.
I live as a steward of abundance and hope. Not as a steward of need and fear.
Showing posts with label faith. Show all posts
Showing posts with label faith. Show all posts
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Shower Blog 3
I am breakthrough for someone else.
I can't stop waiting for someone else to get breakthrough. It's a race against time, not a pride thing. Whoever brings the breakthrough will be breakthrough for everyone else.
It's time for the bold to arise, the passion to set others aflame.
It's time to in the fullness of our calling. Regardless of how much we know or don't know, we must use what we have, and count Him able, and count Him faithful.
I can't stop waiting for someone else to get breakthrough. It's a race against time, not a pride thing. Whoever brings the breakthrough will be breakthrough for everyone else.
It's time for the bold to arise, the passion to set others aflame.
It's time to in the fullness of our calling. Regardless of how much we know or don't know, we must use what we have, and count Him able, and count Him faithful.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Faith
For class, the professor asked us to create a working definition for faith in anything, not just religion. This is what our group came up with:
"Faith is belief and confidence in a given present/future situation that is based on a history of trust, in which we cannot prove or give tangible evidence of its absolute outcome."
Honestly, this quote came out of my own history with God. A lot of the other definitions that people had were simply just 'believing' that something is true. But of all people, Christians should know that faith is not blind. Faith sees, faith sees more than blind faith.
Our walks should be cultivated in a deep history with God. I have faith that people will be healed because of the history that God has revealed through the bible, through people i know, and through my own life... I have a faith that when I ask Him to come, He will. Because He always has... there's a history of Him showing up.
"Faith is belief and confidence in a given present/future situation that is based on a history of trust, in which we cannot prove or give tangible evidence of its absolute outcome."
Honestly, this quote came out of my own history with God. A lot of the other definitions that people had were simply just 'believing' that something is true. But of all people, Christians should know that faith is not blind. Faith sees, faith sees more than blind faith.
Our walks should be cultivated in a deep history with God. I have faith that people will be healed because of the history that God has revealed through the bible, through people i know, and through my own life... I have a faith that when I ask Him to come, He will. Because He always has... there's a history of Him showing up.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Rahab
Just read about Rahab for my OT class. The worksheet asked why she was important and why she was so worth mentioning so many times, despite being a woman. When I looked in Hebrews 11 and read about her faith, it finally hit me.
I wrote this on my worksheet:
"She had faith in someone else’s story. She took personal faith in the story of someone else’s victory in God. And for that, she is applauded for her faith."
After I read what I wrote, I took a step back, because I realized the faith that she had. So many people want their own personal experience of God invading their life or something they can see before they are willing to give their life and run hard after God. But here, we find a prostitute, who overhears the stories of the God of Israel, His power, His might, and she took it for herself. She never saw God move in her life, but she had the power of the testimony and decided that she would side with God. As a result, she was grafted into Jesus' lineage (Matt 1).
Rahab had the faith Jesus talked about... something like.. "blessed are those who do not see, but believe".
I'm thinking, I hear all these testimonies about the dead being raised, revival breaking out on the streets, disneyland, the grocery store, walmart, people with crazy giftings, etc, yet I've never had that breakthrough for myself. It's time we had "great faith", which is another name for 'simple' faith.
More Jesus!
I wrote this on my worksheet:
"She had faith in someone else’s story. She took personal faith in the story of someone else’s victory in God. And for that, she is applauded for her faith."
After I read what I wrote, I took a step back, because I realized the faith that she had. So many people want their own personal experience of God invading their life or something they can see before they are willing to give their life and run hard after God. But here, we find a prostitute, who overhears the stories of the God of Israel, His power, His might, and she took it for herself. She never saw God move in her life, but she had the power of the testimony and decided that she would side with God. As a result, she was grafted into Jesus' lineage (Matt 1).
Rahab had the faith Jesus talked about... something like.. "blessed are those who do not see, but believe".
I'm thinking, I hear all these testimonies about the dead being raised, revival breaking out on the streets, disneyland, the grocery store, walmart, people with crazy giftings, etc, yet I've never had that breakthrough for myself. It's time we had "great faith", which is another name for 'simple' faith.
More Jesus!
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