If i say i have faith in GOD or i say i have faith in the Lord Christ Jesus, how far does that faith go?
Woke up today with the question on my mind:
If i trust in GOD and have faith that He will return for me,
how is that true if i don’t have the faith for Him to heal me?
If i don’t have faith in Him in and for all things, how can i say i have faith in Him at all?
Faith is all or nothing, either i trust in Him or i don’t.
Either i believe His word or i don't.
Either my faith is in Him or it is not.
i have a few health situations that eventually will kill this body, and yesterday i had a wood walkway over an irrigation dich fall through, my left leg went through jarring my whole skeleton system.
my leg was scratched up a bit, my heart seems to still be working fine but my hernia is larger than it was,
woke up around 2:30 AM and asked the Lord to heal my body,
and the thought came back to put on an ace band aid,
so now am wearing an ace band aid to hold it in and the pain has gone away.
The though came to me;
why do you say you trust Me but then doubt?
If you trust Me then trust Me in all things, for if you doubt Me why should I do anything for you?
That is what started my search as to what faith do i have?
Who do i have faith in?
Do i truly have faith in GOD?
Do i truly have faith in my Lord Christ Jesus?
Or is it just a faith of chance?
This is what i have come up with:
i have faith that the Bible is the word of GOD.
i have faith that GOD spoke all things in to being,
the heavens and the earth, the land and the waters, plant and animal life, and man and woman, that GOD birthed life in to mankind.
i have faith that GOD spoke to Noha and that Noha built an Arc that housed seven pair of each kind of clean animal’s male and female and two pair of each unclean animal’s male and female and seven pairs of each kind of bird.
And that after the Arc was built and the animals and Noah’s family were in, GOD closed the door and then proceeded to cleans the earth with a mity flood.
i believe GOD separated the red sea for Moses, that He gave David the courage to confront and defeat Goliath, that He closed the mouth of the lions for Daniel, that He was with the Hebrew boys in the fiery furnace and that they came out not even smelling of smoke, i believe He sent a big fish to swallow up Jonna and deliver Him to Neiva,
i believe that He directed Joshua in the way to win the battle at Jericho, that He spoke out of a burning bush that wall burning it was not consumed by the fire,
i believe that Father God sent His son to hearth by way of a young virgin, that He lived among mankind, that He then gave of Himself to be crucified for my sins that i may be forever forgiven and made it posable that i may live with Him in paradise.
And three days later rose from the dead victories over death hell and the grave so that being in Him i need not even fear death.
i believe that wall Christ Jesus was here on earth He feed the five thousand from five loaves of bread and two fish and had leftovers, that He feed multitudes of people twice and had left overs on both times.
i believe Jesus healed the sick, gave sight to the blind, cased the lame to walk, cast out demons and walked on the water.
i believe He raise people from the dead, speaking “Lazarus, come forth” and that Lazarus came forth out of the grave, bound hand and foot with wrappings, very much alive.
If i believe Father God’s and the words of Christ Jesus that are documented in the Bible.
If i, if we, who go by the name Christian, and those who call ourselves followers of The Lord Christ Jesus truly believe all these things,
if we believe He can and will cleans us of all our inequities,
then why can’t we believe He can and will cleans us of ore illnesses?
If i ask of the Lord and it is not His will to heal that does not mean i am to run to man for answers.
On the web sight we just went through the Book of Job.
Father God allowed Job to be tested to the point of boils and worms being all over and in his body.
Job went through the ordeal trusting in GOD.
GOD brought Him through and eventually healed Him,
restored his health to him in His timing.
in all that took place Job stayed faithful to GOD through it all.
For it was said of Job
“Job; a blameless and upright man, fearing God and turning away from evil.”
Oh, to be like Job. blameless and upright, fearing God and turning away from evil.
Having such faith in GOD that no matter what happens in my life i would have no doubt that what is taking place in my life is in GOD’s will for me,
even if to only show to Satan i am one who is upright, fearing God and turning away from evil.
We are told in James 1, this of one who asks God for anything
‘He must ask in faith without any doubting,
for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea,
driven and tossed by the wind.
For that man ought not to expect that he will receive anything from the Lord, being a double-minded man,
he is unstable in all his ways.’
Conclusion:
If my faith is in Father GOD and the Lord Christ Jesus,
Eith it is in faith in all things or it is not faith at all.
If i ask the Lord for healing and the healing does not come,
it is because i am to lean in to Him not wavering from that faith,
and to stay focused on Him as my Lord and savior,
my redeemer, my provider, my provision.
The One who is always faithful to His word.
The only one who can save a soil from the pit of hell.
my conclusion?
i would rather this body dies knowing my faith is still in Christ my Lord, rather than to doubt Him and His word.
i would rather hear on that day;
‘Come, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.’
rather than;
‘I never knew you; depart from Me.’
my attention should be to have total faith in the Lord, and to care more for those whom GOD brings in to my life rather than my life its self,
for my life is Christs,
to do with as He wills,
if i am truly surrendered to Him i will trust Him and place my faith in Him and Him alone.
For i believe His word and know i can not serve two masters.
Will leave you with this.
Be ready for His coming
Matthew 24:42-51
¶ “Therefore be on the alert, for you do not know which day your Lord is coming.
But be sure of this, that if the head of the house had known at what time of the night the thief was coming, he would have been on the alert and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.
For this reason you also must be ready; for the Son of Man is coming at an hour when you do not think He will.”
Who then is the faithful and sensible slave whom his master put in charge of his household to give them their food at the proper time?
Blessed is that slave whom his master finds so doing when he comes.
Truly I say to you that he will put him in charge of all his possessions.
But if that evil slave says in his heart,
‘My master is not coming for a long time,’
and begins to beat his fellow slaves and eat and drink with drunkards;
the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour which he does not know, and will cut him in pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites;
in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
my faith is in Christ Jesus my LORD.
would rather this body dies knowing my faith is firmly planted in Him, rather than in a man who follows worldly ways..