DO YOU NEED IT?
(Your “Need” Activates Your Faith)
TO THE BIBLE: Mark 11:22-23 AMPC
“And Jesus, replying, said to them, Have faith in God [constantly]. Truly I tell you, whoever says to this mountain, Be lifted up and thrown into the sea! And does not doubt at all in his heart but believes that what he says will take place, it will be done for him.”
LET’S TALK
“Why didn’t my faith work when I commanded that the sky turn red?” Nelson, a young Christian, asked, demanding answers from his Care Group leader. “I thought faith always works!”
“Yes, faith always works, but your faith is activated by your need. Did you really “need” the sky to turn red?”
“No, I didn’t; I was just trying to see if it would,” Nelson answered sheepishly, knowing his leader was right.
Someone once said, “I’ve never seen anybody move a mountain with faith; was Jesus just using symbolism or did He mean what He said in Mark 11:22-23? Can you really
command a mountain to move?” Yes, Jesus meant it. But Jesus wasn’t talking about a game. He wasn’t saying that we go out in the street and say, “I’m here to show you how powerful I am”; then you start commanding mountains and buildings to move. No! The question is, why would you want to move a physical mountain? To what intent and purpose?
Our faith is always connected to our needs. If there’s no need for it, there’ll be no faith to it. So, you may find yourself trying to make something happen that won’t happen because there’s no need to activate faith in the first place. Faith is activated only when there’s a need for it. When you find yourself in a situation and you have a “need,” don’t despair; that need will activate your faith. It’s like the fellow who was healed
of cancer; he didn’t know he could make it happen until he was told he had only one month to live. The news triggered his faith, and he began to declare, “I shall not die but live,” and indeed, he was healed. Hallelujah!
Never be overwhelmed with your needs; rather, let your needs connect to your faith. Let your needs excite you. Once you connect to a need, that’s your opportunity to overwhelm your need with your faith. Praise God!
Go Deeper
Romans 4:19-20; 2 Corinthians 4:17-18; Philemon 1:6
Speak
In Christ, I’m self-sufficient. I was born into an incorruptible, inexhaustible inheritance. My faith is the victory that overcomes the world! I’ve overcome the world and its systems and structures. My path is that of glory and excellence, victory, success, joy,
health, and prosperity, which God has ordained for me. I walk in dominion. Hallelujah!
Daily Bible Reading
ONE YEAR
Revelation 18, Zechariah 4-6
TWO YEAR
Revelation 19:11-21, Zechariah 7-8
Act
Connect what needs you might have right now to your faith, and get ready to have results come your way.
My Notes
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
No comments:
Post a Comment