How Faith Works
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1– WHAT IS FAITH
Faith is a force that goes to the spiritual world (invisible) and transports.
For the natural (visible) world, God's blessings for our life.
The invisible world is real, but we do not see it with our eyes.
natural. There are sounds that we also cannot hear with the
our ears, however a dog hears; because the dog's ear is
on another frequency.
There is a world more real than this one we live in. The world
that we live in is in the third dimension, and is always in constant
transformation. The spiritual world (invisible) is eternal and does not change. It was
the spiritual world, which created the physical world.
Hebrews 11:1-3 "...what is seen was not made out of what is visible."
God did not have a drop of water to create the oceans, nor a
grain of sand to create the planets. Everything started from nothing. Everything that
what we see today was made from what cannot be seen. Therefore, what cannot be
you see it's more real than what we see.
Just because we feel symptoms of illnesses, it doesn't mean
that we are sick. In fact, we have become sick in the
the moment when we admit with our mouth that we are sick.
The defeated is not the one who is at the bottom, filled with debts, etc.
The defeated one is the one who accepts defeat. We may be underneath.
full of problems and debts, but if we have the attitude of: - 'I will
I will fight and I will win!..., If it doesn't work one way, it will work another; because
God is with me and He will supply all my needs.
The winner is not the one who does not fall, but the one who, even if he falls, gets up.
lift.
Defeated is not one who falls, but one who does not get up.
raise.
Faith is a force of your spirit that repels illness and brings
health repels poverty and brings abundance.
A prosperous man or woman is not a person with money, it is
someone who has God.
Hebrews 11:6 "But without faith it is impossible to please Him;..."
Without faith it is impossible to please God. Faith is related to
to draw closer to God.
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Faith is not an enthusiasm, faith is not saying that you believe in God, no.
to come to church.
Faith is related to our drawing near to God.
to God.
When we draw close to God, we begin to know Him better.
Dating is an approach to each other to get to know each other better.
When we draw near to God, we come to know Him better, and faith
will always accompany knowledge.
We will not trust a person we do not know. This is the
the reason why sometimes it is so difficult to trust God with your life,
family, finances, etc., because he knows it little. When we get to know
God, from this knowledge arises something called: trust.
What we call trust, the Bible calls faith.
Of all the times God was saddest, when Jesus was saddest
bored with people, it wasn't because they called him names, it was always
for not believing in him, for doubting him. And nothing pleases more than
God, from what people trust, believe in what he
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2 - HOW DOES FAITH WORK?
If faith is so important to God, we need to know how
it works and what we need to do to act in faith and please God.
For everyone born of God overcomes the world; and
this is the victory that conquers the world, our faith
Everyone who has received Jesus has the ability to overcome the world, and
you will conquer the world not with the schemes of the world, but by using your
faith in God.
Hebrews 10:38 – "But the righteous shall live by faith; and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him."
the soul will not take pleasure in it.
Right, it means: innocent. When Jesus carried our sins on the cross
sins,
God the Father declared us innocent.
It is supposed that we who are just shall live by faith, and God
expect this from us.
Living by faith means having a lifestyle that is
based not on what we see around us (circumstances sometimes
good, but other times horrible), our lifestyle should not
base this on what God says.
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Whether in crisis or not, God's promises remain.
The Lord continues to be our shepherd and we shall not want for anything.
The Bible shows that it was always in times of crisis that those
Those who trusted in God thrived.
This shows us that the crisis out there cannot prevent us from
may God's promises be fulfilled in the lives of those who trust in
God.
Confession: The crisis happening out there cannot prevent that the
God's promises come to pass in my life.
3 - FOUR IMPORTANT POINTS
For faith to work we need:
1– To have a promise from God.
We need to believe in God's promise.
We need to confess God's promise for our life.
4– We need to act as if we already have.
First point: We need to know God's promise.
I John 5:14-15 - "And this is the confidence that we have in Him... if"
we know that you hear us in everything we ask, we know that
we will reach the requests we make to you
We cannot believe that God will give us something that does not
prometheus. We can't believe that Joaquim or Manuel is going to
give a car; because he didn't promise to give...
The Bible says that if we ask God according to His Will, He will
will respond.
How will we know what God's will is?
By Your Word (The Bible). When we do not know what the will is
from God, here comes the prayer 'if it is your will...' But when we know
We cannot pray 'Lord, if it is your will...';
because there is doubt.
Example: Isaiah 53:4-5 - "Surely he took upon himself.....and
by your stripes we were healed
If someone is sick and goes to Jesus to be healed, they cannot go.
with doubts, they have to go with faith, with confidence that he wants to heal you;
because it is written...
The price has been paid, so it should reach God with faith that it will be received.
your cure.
We need to have a promise from God for our faith to be strong and
to function.
Psalm 23:1 - 'The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.'
God wants us to lack nothing, but for our faith to work,
We need to know the Word of God and understand what He promises.
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Philippians 4:19 - "And my God shall supply all your needs according to His riches."
all your needs in glory, by Christ Jesus.
Glory is the Greek word 'dócxa' which means: splendor of
riches.
He does not meet our needs drop by drop, it's with
abundance. II Corinthians 8:9
Jesus submitted to the temporary state of poverty so that
may we be rich.
Some find it hard to believe in God's promises;
because they do not keep their own promises.
They promise just to shut the other person's mouth, and since they don't fulfill it, they don't.
they believe that God will do it.
II Corinthians 1:20 – 'For all the promises of God are'
they are, in it, yes, and for it, the Amen, for the glory of God, for us
A promise from God is God's yes to us.
Second point: We need to confess God's promise as
wow.
Taking ownership of the promise.
Third point:
We need to believe in God's promise; because if we don't believe,
let's pass by. We need to believe that God's promise is
for us today.
Fourth point: We need to act in accordance with the promise.
Faith is an action. For our faith to work:
1- We need to have a promise from God;
We need to believe in God's promise;
3- We need to confess the promise for our life;
4- We need to act as if we already have.
James 1:22 - "But be doers of the word,..."
Faith is not something you have, faith is something you do.
It's a waste of time, for example; to confess that we are healed and
let's stay lying in bed.
Confessing God's promise without corresponding action is dead.
Faith without works is dead. For our faith to work, we need to take action.
as if we already had.
Example: He is in bed and confesses: - "Lord I believe that through
Jesus' wounds, I am already healed.
A person who is healed does not stay in bed all day, gets up, and it is there that
The miracle happens. It is in action that the miracle happens.
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