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Faith is a Verb

by Pastor Ken  

James 2:17 - In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not acc... | Bible  Study Tools
James 2:17
Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
 
 
Got to love James, he is pragmatic, what he tells you is practical and for everyday life.   This whole portion was obvious to people who believed, but their belief was not producing movement or change in their life; it was not producing action.
 
See, "Faith is a Verb"; it is meant to produce action in our lives. 
 
James spends this whole chapter talking about how "Faith" should produce activity in our lives, we should "ACT" on what we believe.   What good is it for me to tell you something I believe if I am not trying to act on what I believe?   Now I am not saying that some people are not preaching one thing and doing another; there are plenty, but none of us think that is right.  So James' word is pragmatic, "do what the word says, do what you believe." 
 
 
Like Nike, "Just do it!"      Let your Faith take you places the former person who did not believe would have never gone.   Do things that only God could have led you to do, see things only God could have shown you, become the person only God could have led you to be. Faith will take you places, but first you have to take a step.
 
This is a challenge, if you are just doing the minimum, your faith and action is disbalanced, then do something about it, "BE BOLD!"   If you are only doing the minimum, "DO MORE!"   
 
Our belief should be having us, stepping out, SERVING, putting our HANDS to work, because of what we "BELIEVE!"   Let that challenge you today.
 
 
Lord today if we are just doing the minimum, if our faith is weak because we have let it produce no activity in our lives, then change us, challenge us to do more, to seek you more, to step out of the boat (Thanks Peter) to take the first step, to walk on water, to leap, to take impossible steps and discover they are possible, help us "LIVE" out our "FAITH," in Jesus' name!

A.S.K

by Pastor Ken  

Matthew 7:7-8

7 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. Jesus here exposes the idea that if even bad fathers could give their children good gifts, could give them what they ask for then, how much more our Father in Heaven would/could do for us.   I love that Jesus gives us an Mnemonic, sort of the antidote for seeing the movement of God's Kingdom in our lives.

  • A.sk and it will be given to you.
  • S.eek and you will find.
  • K.nock and the door will be open.

Ask notice there is no limit, now I will say that God will not give you what will harm you, or would harm others, but that leaves a mighty big list for you to receive.   So stop limiting God... ASK

Seek the Kingdom, seek answers, seek wisdom, seek after the things that bring life and you will find them.   Again notice there is no limit to what you can seek, but remember if you seek the wrong things you will find them, so guard your eyes, and the things you seek, because the promise here is you will find.

Knock and I point out that there is not limit to the doors that could be opened for you, but this one requires that we take action, and it aligns with asking and seeking, the possibilities are limitless, this is a license to go with God to be greater, to achieve more, to go through doors you could not have on your own, to achieve greater things, start knocking...

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