Faith
Hebrews 11:1
What is faith? It is the confident
assurance that what we hope for is going to happen. It is the evidence of
things we cannot yet see.
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Refuse to let people tell you it's not going to happen. Keep Praying.
Go after it. A bull dog Faith.
Never let it go bc God is faithful. It's an overflow of the divine
relationship with God.
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The Laws of Faith
Gal 5:5-6
For we through the Spirit wait for
the hope of righteousness out of faith. (6) For in
Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision
has any strength, but faith working through love.
1Jo 4:7
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God, and everyone who loves
has been born of God, and knows God.
Mar 11:22-24
And answering Jesus said to them, Have faith of God. (23) For truly I say to you that whoever shall say
to this mountain, Be moved and be cast into the sea, and shall not doubt in his
heart, but shall believe that what he said shall occur, he shall have whatever
he said. (24) Therefore I say to you, All
things, whatever you ask, praying, believe that you shall receive them, and it will be to you.
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I must speak out my faith from my
heart.
Psa
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Speak out the Word of God. I can plant seeds that are good or bad. What
I sow is what I'll reap. Everything I do brings forth seeds. I can speak words
of faith. Don't speak words of death over self or others.
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Life and death is in the power of the tongue. God created
through the spoken word. Universe - one
sentence.
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Release our Faith through words. If don't have anything good to say, don't say
anything at all.
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Watch your words.
Mar 11:24-25
Therefore I say to you, All things, whatever you ask,
praying, believe that you shall receive them,
and it will be to you. (25) And when
you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive it so that also your Father in Heaven may forgive
you your trespasses.
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Give God praise
before He does something.
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Faith released by
words and action.
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Faith is love
dependant. It is dependant on love and passion for God.
Mat
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Faith works by love. It can't work without faith.
Joh
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I must confess Jesus with my mouth. To speak out truth.
4 Steps to Faith
1.
Hear the Word. Rom
2. Believe the Word. What do I
choose to believe!
3. Speak the Word. 2Ti
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Pray that Holy Spirit comes down powerfully.
4. Do the Word. Jam
without the spirit is dead, so
faith without
works is dead
also.
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Must do something(action) to see faith work.
What Faith is not!
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Faith is not isolated spiritual force.
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Faith is not denial.
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Faith is not neglect.
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Faith is not imitation.
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Faith is not a legalistic formula.
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Faith is not an issue of ordering God around.
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Faith is not a ticket to utopia.
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Faith is not a panic button when in trouble.
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Faith doesn't
answer a problem at the moment like a magic wand.
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Faith doesn't over ride the free will of another.
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Faith is not limited by general results.
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Faith is not absence of feeling. It does not deny the experience of
feelings.
Healing
Isa 53:4-5 Surely He
has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows; yet we
esteemed Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. (5) But He was
wounded for our transgressions; He was
bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was on Him; and with His stripes we ourselves are
healed.
griefs - better translated sickness
or disease
sorrows - better translated pain
wounded - bled outwardly for our
outward sin
bruised - bleed inwardly for our
inward sin
chastisment - correction for my punishment
peace - completeness and saftey in body
healed - figuratively to cure,
cause to heal
Rom 10:8-10 But what
does it say? "The Word is near you, even
in your mouth and in your heart"; that is, the Word of Faith which we
proclaim; (9) Because if you confess the Lord Jesus, and
believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the
dead, you shall be saved. (10) For with the heart one
believes unto righteousness, and with the
mouth one confesses unto salvation.
God's Idea of Salvation includes sin, healing,
and deliverance
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saved
- sozo Greek woord (means more than salvation from
sin) saved, healed and delivered
Luk 7:48-50 And He
said to her, Your sins are forgiven. (49) And those
reclining with Him began to say within
themselves, Who is this who even forgives sins? (50) And He said to the woman, Your
faith has saved you, go in peace.
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saved
refers to sin
Luk 8:43-48 And a
woman who had a flow of blood twelve years (who had spent all her living on
physicians, and could not be healed by
any) (44) came behind Him
and touched the border of His garment. And instantly her flow of blood was
staunched. (45) And Jesus said, Who
touched Me? And all having denied, Peter and those with Him said, Master, the
crowd presses and jostles You, and You say, Who
touched Me? (46) And Jesus said, Someone
has touched Me, for I know that power has gone out of Me. (47) And seeing that she was not hidden, the woman
came trembling. And falling down before Him, she declared to Him before all the
people why she had touched Him, and how she was instantly healed. (48) And He said to her, Daughter, be comforted.
Your faith has saved you; go in peace.
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saved refers to make well or healing
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Healing is
what salvation has done for the Body. Forgiveness of sins is what salvation had
done for the Spirit.
Luk 8:35-36 And they
went out to see what had been done. And they came to Jesus and found the man
from whom the demons had departed sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in
his right mind. And they were afraid. (36) Also
those who saw it told them how the
demon-possessed one was healed.
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healed
is sozo refers to delivered
Luk 17:11-19 And as
He went to
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cured refers to healing
for leperocy
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obediance equals blessings
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God
is glorified when people are healed.
Faith for healing comes from
the Word of God.
Examples of sozo:
Mar 6:54-56 And when
they had come out of the boat, at once knowing Him, (55) they ran all around that neighborhood, and
began to carry on cots those who were sick, wherever they heard He was. (56) And wherever He entered, into villages or
cities or country, they laid the sick in the streets and begged Him if only
they might touch but the fringe of His garment. And as many as touched Him were made whole.
Jam 5:14-15 Is any
sick among you? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray
over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. (15) And the prayer of faith will cure the
sick, and the Lord shall raise him up. And if he has committed sins, it will be
forgiven him.
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Healing
must be preached as a part of
salvation.
Act 4:9-12 if we
are examined today on a good work for an infirm man, by what this one has been healed, (10) be it known to you all, and to all the people
of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified,
whom God raised from the dead, in this name does this man stand before you whole. (11) This is the Stone which you builders have
counted worthless, and He has become the Head of the
Corner. (12) And there is salvation in no other One; for
there is no other name under Heaven given among men by which we must be saved.
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Healed and saved here are sozo
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Verse 12 separates all other religions.
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Healing leads to salvation.
Rom
1Co
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save refers to sozo
Act 14:5-10 And when
there was an assault made by both the nations and the Jews, with their rulers,
in order to insult and to stone them, (6) they were
aware of it and fled to Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and to the country around them. (7) And there they were preaching the
gospel. (8) And a certain man was sitting in Lystra, without strength in the feet, being lame from his
mother's womb, who never had walked. (9) This one heard Paul speaking; and Paul, looking intently at him, and seeing
that he had faith to be healed, (10) said with
a loud voice, Stand up on your feet! And he leaped and walked.
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healed refers to sozo
1Co
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Physical bodies belong to Christ. The Lord is the
Savior of the body not only our Spirit.
Psa 104:29 You hide Your face, they are troubled; You take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.