For the past couple of days I have been sharing messages that reflect some of what I meditated on during my break. Yesterday’s message was about grace, and that makes sense, because I have been teaching God’s grace for years. I revelation of God’s grace has changed me completely. It has changed the way I look at God, others and myself. One thing I think/meditate about all the time is the relationship between God’s grace and our faith. So today I will share a few thoughts about this relationship and the difference between the two.
So what does this mean to you today? A few things.
- Faith is not something you do to try to get God to respond. I had this understanding of faith for years and I was wrong. Faith is not humanity’s attempt to get divinity to move. Faith is our positive response to what God has already done by grace.
- Faith begins where the will of God is known. Faith can’t get what grace has not already provided.
- Stop trying to use your faith to get God to do what you want him to do. God wants you to use your faith to access what He has already done for you; what He has already provided for you. There is a BIG difference.
- No matter what happens in the earth, you can have peace in knowing that God has ALREADY made provision for it.
- You will never face something God did not already know about, and that He did not already prepare you for.
- Faith has a “rest” component to it. When you are truly in-faith you are also in-rest, because you know God has already done it. If you are trying to get God to move, then you have not entered into God’s rest, you have not fully embraced His finished work.
- Religion taught us to attempt to get God to do things for us. The Word teaches us to seek God to understand what He was ALREADY done!
- Prayer should be saying to God what He has already said to you. Prayer should be more about agreement than you attempting to get God to move.
- You don’t read the Bible to get God to move. You read the Bible to renew your mind, so you can think the way God thinks, and so you can know what God has already done for you.
- You don’t pray for three hours to try to get God to move, you pray to find out God’s will, so you can be in sync with Him in the earth. So you can pray His will, coming in agreement with God for His will to manifest.
11. God has made plans for you by grace. He now expects you to seek Him concerning those plans and then use your faith to see the manifestation of them in the earth.
Closing Confession: Father, I thank You for teaching me about Your unearned grace and my requirement to live by faith. Everything You do for me, You do by grace. I could never earn or deserve it. Everything I do in relation to You, You expect me to do by faith. Faith is not me trying to get You to put a “yes” on my plans. Faith is You trying to get me to put a “yes” on Your plans. My faith agrees with Your grace. My faith accesses Your grace. My faith comes in agreement with, and pulls Your will to the earth, as it is in heaven. My faith comes in agreement with Your plans, even when what I see in the earth is in direct contradiction to what You have spoken or revealed to me. My faith is not based on what I see, or what I receive through sense-realm evidence. My faith is based on You, Your Word, and the revelation You give me. When You speak to me I know it’s already done, in Your realm, in heaven, in eternity, even though it might take some time to manifest in my realm, in the earth, in time. So I refuse to live by what I see in the earth. I don’t live my life based on the natural. I live my life by faith, and my faith agrees with Your reality, even when it flies in the face of the earthly reality I see every day. I declare that my faith accesses Your grace. Living this way I will become the man/woman You called me to be and I will get to experience Your best for my life! I declare this by faith. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
This is Today’s Word! Apply it and Prosper.
