Do our words line up with God’s Word or do they contradict God’s Word? Often, Faith is negated simply through wrong speaking or through allowing worry and fear to dominate our thinking.
One way we act in faith is by saying what God says about our needs. Such actions do not demonstrate faith – they are acts of foolishness and presumption. When I speak of acting like the Word is true, I’m not talking about writing checks when there is no money in the bank, or throwing away medicine when a life – threatening illness or condition exists in one’s body. We must act like the Word of God is true. But because he acted, he received.Īcting in faith is equally important to us today if we expect to receive from God. Had he refused to act on the word of the master, he would not have received healing. How many invalids would allow themselves to be carried up on a roof? Furthermore, when Jesus told the sick man to rise and take up his bed, he acted on Jesus’ words and made effort to get up. But the sick man also acted on his faith. The friends acted on their faith by getting the man to Jesus. Climbing to the roof of the house where Jesus was ministering, they lowered their friend through an opening in the tilling and into the room before the Lord, where the man was healed.īy whose faith was the this healing brought about – the man on the bed or friends who brought him? Luke 5:20 says Jesus saw THEIR faith. The crowd was so large that they could not get to Jesus, but that didn’t stop these men because they believed Jesus had the answer to their friend’s need. In like chapter 5 of the New Testament, we read about some men who brought their friend to Jesus for healing. But they acted on their faith in spite of the circumstances, and when they did, the walls fell down! Anyone can shout when the walls are down – it doesn’t take any faith to do that. Notice in Joshua chapter 6 that at the time they shouted, the city Walls were still standing. They had to act on what God had said by marching around the city for seven days and shouting when the musical instruments were played. But that didn’t mean that the city would automatically be theirs. God had already told them that He had given the city of Jericho in their hands. Think for a moment of the children of Israel as they encountered the city of Jericho. Faith is not something we have, so much as it is something we do. It is when we know God’s Word is true and act like it’s true that it becomes a reality to us. They should Simply start acting like God’s word is true it will make all the difference in their lives. Their focus is all wrong they focusing on their ability or inability to believe God or “trying” to have faith.
I see so many Christians who are struggling to believe and struggling to have faith. Then I ask them, “But have you ever acted like those scriptures are true?” People often ask me, “Brother Hagin, why haven’t I received from God?” Sometimes they even quote scriptures to me and tell me over and over how much they believe those scriptures. Hebrews 11:1 KJV Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.