| FEEDING FRENZY |
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| JoyUs Musing Edition #11-07 |
A basic tenet of faith is this:
God never fails.
God's Word never fails.
God never makes mistakes.
Say those three sentences aloud several times. God never fails. God's Word never fails. God never makes
mistakes. God never fails. God's Word never fails. God never makes mistakes. EVER.
Another truth is that most of us Christians are starving to death. In the natural realm, our bodies need food to
sustain life. We eat to live. Our body requires nutrition to survive and to continue to function properly.
Otherwise our body will be weak and eventually fail us.
In the spiritual realm, our spiritual self, which is who we are, needs food to sustain life. We need spiritual food to
live. Our spiritual self requires nutrition to survive and to continue to function properly. Otherwise our spiritual self
will be weak and fail us.
When we got saved (born again), our spiritual selves were transformed from darkness to light - not our physical
selves. So many of us try to function as "new creatures" without nutrition. We try to "have faith" based on
feelings, experience, hope, a'wishin, praying, hollering at God, and just about EVERYTHING but sitting down to
the dinner table and eating enough to develop, mature, grow, and build up faith.
There is only ONE way faith comes (develops, grows) - by hearing the Word of God. Hearing here implies the act
- in other words, it is not a one time thing. It is an action = doing. Hearing can also imply understanding.
Hearing isn't just sitting in church on Sunday and listening to the preacher. Hearing is getting that Word down
into your spirit through reading the Bible and faith-based books; listening to faith-based teaching CD's and
teachers on television or radio. Hearing is getting up a little earlier in the morning and spending time reading a
faith-based devotional and chatting with God.
Hearing is also knowing - knowledge - of what God has said about something (like sickness, disease, poverty,
destruction - hint: He's against it all). And that knowing only comes from hearing!
So if you're having trouble believing God for something - get into a feeding frenzy. Feed on the Word of God.
Have the Word going all day long. Have teaching CD's going while you're cleaning house. Read a good
faith-based devotional every morning before you start your day. Get into the specific scriptures that deal with
what you want to believe God for - healing, prosperity, peace, wholeness. Do a study program.
Put the Word into your heart to the point that it is your reality. Feed until you know that you know that you know
God's Word is the truth and everything else is a lie. His Word will become more real and have more authority in
your life than whatever problem you are facing - see, feel, hear!
Then you will have God's kind of faith - the faith that gets answers and victory every time!
Sharing the goodness of God:
Musing Copyright © 2011 Nan C Loyd
All rights reserved. Used by permission.
God never fails.
God's Word never fails.
God never makes mistakes.
Say those three sentences aloud several times. God never fails. God's Word never fails. God never makes
mistakes. God never fails. God's Word never fails. God never makes mistakes. EVER.
Another truth is that most of us Christians are starving to death. In the natural realm, our bodies need food to
sustain life. We eat to live. Our body requires nutrition to survive and to continue to function properly.
Otherwise our body will be weak and eventually fail us.
In the spiritual realm, our spiritual self, which is who we are, needs food to sustain life. We need spiritual food to
live. Our spiritual self requires nutrition to survive and to continue to function properly. Otherwise our spiritual self
will be weak and fail us.
When we got saved (born again), our spiritual selves were transformed from darkness to light - not our physical
selves. So many of us try to function as "new creatures" without nutrition. We try to "have faith" based on
feelings, experience, hope, a'wishin, praying, hollering at God, and just about EVERYTHING but sitting down to
the dinner table and eating enough to develop, mature, grow, and build up faith.
There is only ONE way faith comes (develops, grows) - by hearing the Word of God. Hearing here implies the act
- in other words, it is not a one time thing. It is an action = doing. Hearing can also imply understanding.
Hearing isn't just sitting in church on Sunday and listening to the preacher. Hearing is getting that Word down
into your spirit through reading the Bible and faith-based books; listening to faith-based teaching CD's and
teachers on television or radio. Hearing is getting up a little earlier in the morning and spending time reading a
faith-based devotional and chatting with God.
Hearing is also knowing - knowledge - of what God has said about something (like sickness, disease, poverty,
destruction - hint: He's against it all). And that knowing only comes from hearing!
So if you're having trouble believing God for something - get into a feeding frenzy. Feed on the Word of God.
Have the Word going all day long. Have teaching CD's going while you're cleaning house. Read a good
faith-based devotional every morning before you start your day. Get into the specific scriptures that deal with
what you want to believe God for - healing, prosperity, peace, wholeness. Do a study program.
Put the Word into your heart to the point that it is your reality. Feed until you know that you know that you know
God's Word is the truth and everything else is a lie. His Word will become more real and have more authority in
your life than whatever problem you are facing - see, feel, hear!
Then you will have God's kind of faith - the faith that gets answers and victory every time!
Sharing the goodness of God:
Musing Copyright © 2011 Nan C Loyd
All rights reserved. Used by permission.
When all is said and done, more is said than
done." - Lou Holtz
done." - Lou Holtz