BUILDING UP YOUR FAITH (1)
“Building up yourselves on your…faith.” ~Jude v.20~
The apostle Jude writes, “But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.” Jude places the responsibility of building yourself up spiritually and strengthening your faith where it belongs - squarely on you.
There are two kinds of faith: mechanical faith and intentional faith . Each time you flip on a light switch you’re exercising mechanical faith. But when you face the unknown, the untried and the undone, you need intentional faith - faith that believes God to do “exceedingly abundantly above all that [you] ask or think” (Ephesians 3:20).
If you’re proactive, your faith will grow . If you’re passive, it won’t. Like the rush of water against a riverbank, there’s an erosion of faith that comes simply from living every day. If you don’t do anything to secure and strengthen your faith it begins to deteriorate.
Christ told the church at Ephesus to remember the heights from which they had fallen (See Revelation 2:5). What a strange thing to say! If you fell from a significant height, don’t you think you’d remember it? Not if the fall was so gradual that you didn’t notice it.
So ask yourself: “Have those who know me best begun to notice that the gleam has gone out of my eye, the joy out of my step, the peace out of my spirit and the Word of God out of my conversation?”
Faith is like a muscle; if you don’t exercise it consistently it will atrophy and become powerless. So the word for you today is: “Strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die” (Revelation 3:2).
O' Heavenly Father, we come before You today with much Praise and Thanksgiving, acknowledging You the One who created us, and all that surrounds us. Father, if it were not for You we would not be here, we Thank You for that. We thank You for every thing that You do for us, from the smallest to the largest. Father as this message today speaks of exercising our faith, I ask that You will be with all of those that have the smallest amount of faith ( the mustard seed) and that You would stay so close to them as they work to exercise the faith so that it builds into the kind of faith needed to sustain themselves in this world. For without a strong intentional faith in the world today one could very easily slip into the snare of the enemy. Put others in there path that WILL build their Faith to be as strong as needed for the days to come. Father we love You , we Honor YOU, we serve YOU, In Jesus name we pray, Amen.
The apostle Jude writes, “But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.” Jude places the responsibility of building yourself up spiritually and strengthening your faith where it belongs - squarely on you.
There are two kinds of faith: mechanical faith and intentional faith . Each time you flip on a light switch you’re exercising mechanical faith. But when you face the unknown, the untried and the undone, you need intentional faith - faith that believes God to do “exceedingly abundantly above all that [you] ask or think” (Ephesians 3:20).
If you’re proactive, your faith will grow . If you’re passive, it won’t. Like the rush of water against a riverbank, there’s an erosion of faith that comes simply from living every day. If you don’t do anything to secure and strengthen your faith it begins to deteriorate.
Christ told the church at Ephesus to remember the heights from which they had fallen (See Revelation 2:5). What a strange thing to say! If you fell from a significant height, don’t you think you’d remember it? Not if the fall was so gradual that you didn’t notice it.
So ask yourself: “Have those who know me best begun to notice that the gleam has gone out of my eye, the joy out of my step, the peace out of my spirit and the Word of God out of my conversation?”
Faith is like a muscle; if you don’t exercise it consistently it will atrophy and become powerless. So the word for you today is: “Strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die” (Revelation 3:2).
O' Heavenly Father, we come before You today with much Praise and Thanksgiving, acknowledging You the One who created us, and all that surrounds us. Father, if it were not for You we would not be here, we Thank You for that. We thank You for every thing that You do for us, from the smallest to the largest. Father as this message today speaks of exercising our faith, I ask that You will be with all of those that have the smallest amount of faith ( the mustard seed) and that You would stay so close to them as they work to exercise the faith so that it builds into the kind of faith needed to sustain themselves in this world. For without a strong intentional faith in the world today one could very easily slip into the snare of the enemy. Put others in there path that WILL build their Faith to be as strong as needed for the days to come. Father we love You , we Honor YOU, we serve YOU, In Jesus name we pray, Amen.
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