Happy Friday!
I’m a little tired this morning, but I’m hyper with LOVE and HAPPINESS! This has been one of the most productive weeks of my life! I know right? Even through all the snow delays… God seems to have GRACED me with a new kind of FAVOR, and it looks like it may be sticking around for a while!
Finances are still a little scary, well more than a little. Very underfunded this past year and especially these days, as you can imagine. But, I’m not falling apart with fear as one might expect. On the contrary, my FAITH is soaring!
You ever had this wonderful kind of thing happen to you before?
You know, in the Bible, there are two kinds of FAITH.
- Natural Heart Faith
- The Gift of Supernatural Faith
Natural Faith…
I’m not talking about faith in the sense that society may use the term. This is more than the power of positive thinking… it’s a spiritual faith… it’s faith IN GOD.
Natural faith grows in a person by reading the word of God: Romans 10:17 “So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”
Really, even natural faith starts out as a gift from God… he plants it in our hearts when we hear his word, and it grows and develops in us as we walk with him.
As we read the Bible, our faith GROWS… and we are more able to BELIEVE God for bigger and better things concerning our lives.
Natural faith also preserves us in times of persecution and enables us to stand firm in our convictions in a ever darkening civilization.
Faith is not HOPE…
Hope is the dream, the wish, the desire… for something that we don’t yet have. Hebrews 11:1 “Faith is the confidence that WHAT WE HOPE FOR will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see.”
Hope says, “Gosh, that sure would be nice! (or) I wonder if I could become this or that? (or) I bet God wants me to be better off than this… I bet I can grow and improve and make a far bigger difference with my life!”
Hope is the DREAM…
Once we have HOPES, we need FAITH to materialize these HOPES. Faith says things like this: “I can do ALL things through Christ who strengthens me… and nothing is impossible for them that believe… and God is able to do: exceedingly, abundantly, above and beyond all I can ever thing or ask… according to Gods power WORKING IN ME!”
Faith says… lets go get these things! Faith MATERIALIZES our hopes! Faith is the vehicle that drives us from our dreams to realization of those dreams!
Fear is the Opposite of Faith and the Enemy of Faith…
People who live in fear, live in paranoia of the bad things that MIGHT happen to them. Fear causes a person to LIVE IN THE PAST… instead of focusing on the limitless potential of WHAT CAN BE IN OUR FUTURE!
Fear is: False Evidence Appearing Real!
Fear empowers the force of destruction just like FAITH empowers the force of BLESSING. Fear is a FORCE just like FAITH is a force. Fear is CONFIDENCE in the devil, just like FAITH is confidence in God!
Job said, “The thing I FEARED, has come upon me!”
Faith Moves Mountains!
Matthew 17:19-21 Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why could we not cast it out?” So Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you. However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.”
Did you see that? These disciples were not able to cast out a demon, because of their UNBELIEF! The question for us then, is how many things are NOT casting out… how many things are we not knocking down… how many obstacles are we NOT blasting through, because of OUR UNBELIEF?
Nothing will be impossible to the person of FAITH!
There is a Supernatural Gift of Faith!
This week, out of nowhere… I found myself BELIEVING for victory in the face of a million obstacles… it is like I cannot NOT BELIEVE… EVEN IF I TRY! This is a prime example of the supernatural GIFT of FAITH!
1 Corinthians 12:7-9 “Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. To one there is given through the Spirit the message of wisdom, to another the message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, TO ANOTHER FAITH by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, etc…”
I believe God gives us a supernatural ENDOWMENT of FAITH for those times when our natural faith runs out… or when our natural faith is just not developed enough for something we are facing.
And that is what’s happening to ME this week! God has GIFTED me with a supernatural endowment of FAITH to BLAST THROUGH the obstacles before me! And WHAT A DIFFERENCE THIS IS MAKING IN MY WORLD!
Here is your assignment for today!
- Practice dreaming (hoping)… stretch your dreaming muscles!
- Eradicate your fears… stop empowering destructive forces!
- Supersize your faith… expand your concept of God… read your bible, fast and pray!
- Ask & believe for the gift of supernatural faith… the grace to believe for EPIC things beyond your natural faith!
Thats it for today… just a little something to HELP YOU SPANK THOSE LOFT MOUNTAINS! I just finished praying for you all… have a super Friday!
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Dream Big, Live Bold, and Make the Difference!
Chuck
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