The ONLY way to please God
Faith, is the ONLY Way to Please God. Faith is more than a casual “I believe”. Faith is a stance, a firm position, a conviction of the heart. Faith is not faith unless it’s all you hang on to. It is akin to courage and standing up for what you believe. Faith is to believe what you don’t see. The reward of faith is you get to see what you believed.
If you mix the Word of God with your faith and your voice, you will have an explosion of life and promises. The Lord loves you to remind Him of His Word, it shows you have faith in it. It’s a positive declaration of your faith and your knowledge of the Word which pleases God! God has given us abundant promises in His Word, and when these promises are activated by our faith, God will always be true to His Word.
The promise, much like a seed, has power but you have to add water, your faith. Add faith to God’s Word and you’ll ignite the possibilities of God for you. “Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God” (Ro 10:17). That second “hearing” in the above verse should be spelled “heeding”. It’s not the same word in the original Greek. The first word refers to HEARING, but the second “hearing” in Greek refers to an action, as in HEEDING, doing. Remember, faith without works is dead. (Jam 2:26).
Jesus made a clear distinction between those who hear only and those who act out their faith. He made it clear that unless you DO (heed, act on) the Word, your house will fall (Mt 7:24-27).
Faith has to be ACTIVE to be alive. Faith is motion-activated. And it puts you in the right position to receive from God.
COMMIT to activate your faith, EVERYDAY.
Let’s COMMIT to make the following verses OURS
Heb 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
Jam 2:26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
Heb 4:2b But the Word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it.
Heb 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Mt 9:29b According to your faith let it be to you.
Jn 20:27b Do not be unbelieving, but believing.
Ro 4:20-21 He did not waver at the promises of God through unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving glory to God, and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was able to perform.
Ro 10:17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.
Ro 12:3b God has dealt to each one a measure of faith.
Ro 14:23b Whatever is not from faith is sin.
2Cor 5:7 For we walk by faith, not by sight.
2Cor 4:18 While we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
Heb 10:23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.
Heb 10:35 Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward.
Heb 10:38 Now the just shall live by faith; But if anyone draws back, My soul has no pleasure in him.
Heb 12:2 Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Jam 1:6-8 But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
2Tim 2:13 If we are faithless, He remains faithful; He cannot deny Himself.
1Jn 5:4 For whatever is born of God overcomes the world, and this is the victory that has overcomes the world, even our faith.
Job 13:15a Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him.
Rev 3:11b Holdfast what you have, that no one may take your crown.
Eph.5:16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Pr 3:5-6 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.