Faith Works By Love
As believers in Christ Jesus it’s important that we have active living faith.
Our faith is active.
It’s always working. It’s not at a red light. Your faith journey are green lights. It’s always moving. It’s always on. Our faith is living. It’s alive. It’s breathing not dormant.
But faith by itself is not enough to make us more then conquers.
We must also have love because the Bible clearly states in Gal 5:6 that faith works by love.
God’s LOVE inspires faith.
His LOVE gives Faith a foundation to build on.
His LOVE gives us a reason to believe
His LOVE for us is the foundation of our FAITH in HIM
John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
And God is love and love is God so we can also say the scripture like this: For LOVE so loved ME, that he (Who is LOVE) gave his only begotten Son (OF HIS LOVE) , that whosoever believeth in (THE SON OF LOVE) should not perish, but have everlasting life (THE LIFE OF LOVE)
Rom 8:32
He that spared not his own son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things.
Because of his love for us how much more will he freely give us all things.
God sacrificed his very own son for us, and what prompted him to do it was LOVE
Everything he does for us it is prompted by his great love.
It’s HIS LOVE That provides exceeding great and precious promises that blesses our life. That can be found in 1 Peter 1:4
It’s His Mercy LOVE in
Lamentations 3:22-23 NLT
“The faithful love of the Lord never ends! His mercies never cease. Great is his faithfulness; HIS mercies beginning afresh each morning.”
The mercy of God is His attitude towards mankind to take care of every need we might have in life.
However the lack of knowledge of God’s love will directly effect your faith.
Many believers fall into that category.
They struggle and try to believe, but when push comes to shove their faith falters and fails.
Why?
Because they don’t have a revelation of LOVE to back it up
They don’t have revelation of God’s love to back up their faith!!
Repeat after me: Gods love will always back up my faith!
Lets dig in to get the revelation of God’s love so that you might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.
1 John 4:16 spells it out
And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
Let’s go to the epistles of John’s love letters. John being inspired by the HS writes in 1 John 4:15
This is how we know the love of God
1 John 4:15
Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
So if you confessed that Jesus is the Son of God
God dwells in you and your in God
When did you know the love?
When you got born again.
When you received Jesus into your heart.
When you receive Jesus into your spirit you received the nature of God which is His LOVE Nature
Rom 5:5 states
Romans 5:5
….the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
The holy spirit filled up our hearts with God’s love
Romans 5:5 NLT
For we know how dearly God loves us, because he has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his love.”
GOD is LOVE And LOVE came into YOU
And that’s how you know the LOVE of GOD according to 1 John 4:15
and Rom 5:5
GOD doesn’t just have LOVE
HE is LOVE
He is never gonna run out. His love flow is always going to be the same.
We have to understand that every action of God is a love act.
Every thought of God is a love thought
Every movement of God is a faith movement.
Because He is love and when He makes a movement love moves.
Besides knowing the love we have to believe the love that God has for us.
Again 1 John 4:16 reveals
And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.”
What does it mean to believe in the love? It means:
- You believe in the love he has for you.
- You believe what love has provided for you.
He’s not gonna waver on maybe I will maybe I won’t
Love says yes I will!!
We can easily believe He’ll keep HIS promises to us.
When we know how much God cares, we can trust him to do what he says.
We can have faith that he’ll take care of us in every situation
In his wonderful book Christ the healer FF Bosworth writes I have seen faith arise mountain high when the truth of God’s present love and compassion begins to Dawn upon the minds and hearts of the people. Is not what God can do but what we know he yearns to do, that inspires faith.
Remember that when you find yourself struggling to trust the Lord spend time in fellowship with him feeding on his words of love for you.
How important is it?
Your life depends upon it.
Receive and act on scriptures on God’s Love in your relationship with others. That’s how you practice the love.
You’ll soon see for yourself that faith truly does work by love.
The New Birth
Faith Works By Love
God Has Given Us A Natural and Spiritual Immune System
God has planned for you to live a long time. He has planned for you to live by faith.
Satan is after our immune system.
Those that worry all night is hard on their immune system.
Our immune system does a whole lot of work for us.
When you’re asleep at night Your immune system is working
Cells are being discharged and restored.
He meant for you to sleep.
When you get up in the morning it’s almost like Jesus being raised from the dead.
It’s like you went into a state where you didn’t consciously know what happened but God took care of you.
While you were sleep God was cleansing your body.
When your immune system isn’t working properly things don’t get cleansed.
The system isn’t repairing things.
It isn’t Keeping the arteries flowing freely
Satan comes after the spiritual and natural immune system.
The spiritual immune system can be found in Psalm 34:7, Psalm 91 and Job1:8-10
Angels are part of our spiritual immune system
Psalms 34:7 The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.
Psalms 91:5-10
5 Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;
6 Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.
8 Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.
9 Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thyhabitation;
10 There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.
11 For He shall give His angels charge over you, To keep you in all your ways.”
We have a spiritual wall of protection.
Job 1:8-10 NKJV “Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil?” So Satan answered the Lord and said, “Does Job fear God for nothing? Have You not made a hedge around him, around his household, and around all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.”
That hedge is spiritual protection
How did that protection get down
Through Job’s fear and his words
He tour that hedge down
Next thing you know he had sores from the bottom of his feet to the crown of his head
What kept that blessing hedge up Faith kept it up
And faith will keep it up in your life
The enemy wants to get through
He does it through ignorance of the word ,unbelief, fear, doubt and shame so the hedge won’t protect you.
Every virus, disease and germ that touches your body supposed to die instantly because of your immune system. That immune system is put together by faith.
Pray According to 1 Peter 1:5 That the keeping power of God is keeping my immune system strong in the power of his might.
And we also do things naturally trying to build that immune system and do things like eating right things and that’s fine
But there is a spiritual immune system and it needs to be kept in place and we do that by faith!