HOW TO USE FAITH

How to use Faith
lesson for 5:12:2017

Most people, even believers, are trying to use their faith to get it done. God says you’re not going to use your faith to get it done.

Your supposed to be using your faith to get what has already been done.

We keep responding in the most likely manner based on the natural situation. God wants to change your response.

I don’t know what God has prophesied over your life, and it may seem to you like it will never come to pass. I am here to assure you, if Jesus can, and He can, it will happen in your life.

Philemon 6   ⁶ That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.

Faith has to be involved, your faith is going to start working as soon as you start acknowledging and admitting that, I’ve already got it… I am already healed, delivered, prosperous.

You are even to say it in hard times, it’s about understanding how to give and unusual response in the midst of natural situations.

Hebrews 11:1    Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

You cannot get what grace has provided without faith. Everything “the substance” that has been provided by grace will need faith to receive it.

Ephesians 2: 8-9    ⁸ For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

⁹ Not of works, lest any man should boast.

Grace has made everything available, but, how do we get it? Even though grace has made everything available, you cannot take possession of it without faith.

Everything is in your spirit now. But it is going to take faith to take possession of it. Whatever you need, Jesus has already deposited it in you.

 If it’s going to take faith to take possession of it, we need to understand precisely what faith is.

It cannot be a religious understanding, it cannot be a church misunderstanding. You have to know with precision what faith is.

Most people you ask will say it’s believing, but, that’s just part of it.

You need to know what it is and how it operates, and our part in it; In order to take possession of what grace has already made available.

This is not a case of us trying to get God to do it. God has already done it. Now all we have to do is possess it.

I believe you are about to possess everything the devil stole from you. Today is your breakthrough day. I am speaking that into your life today.

Hebrews 11:1   Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

What are we hoping for?  I know what I just told you, but I feel now that we need proof of what was said. If faith is the substance of things hoped for, what are we hoping for?

                                                                                                                            

1 Peter 1:13   ¹³ Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

Question? Has Jesus come? Has he been revealed for the hope to the end? For the grace that is to be brought to us?

So now, everything that grace has made available through Christ Jesus, is what we hope for.

Grace has made healing available, soundness of mind, freedom from condemnation, deliverance and prosperity, all available: everything for this life and godliness He has made available.

Faith and grace is the substance of all those things. Love is very important, but one of the most important things in live is faith in what Jesus has made available when he said, it is finished.

Because without faith, you cannot get the hope of what grace has made available. Faith works also by love, but while you’re on planet earth, you’re going to need faith working in your life.

Seven points as to what faith is and what faith is not, you must know what faith is in order to take possession of what grace has made available to us.

1.      If through grace He has made healing available to us, then our response needs to be in line with the healing that is already in us through grace.

So, when the doctor says, you’re sick, your response should be no, because of faith in this grace you are the healed.

2.      Faith is not something you do to get God to respond. Most people try to do something to get God to respond. Like, I’m going to fast and pray and do whatever else….

That’s doing things under the Law. Trying to get God to respond; that’s not faith. God has already responded to every need you have.

Faith is our response to what has already been done. So how do we respond when it’s already been done?

3.      Faith does not move God; our faith moves us into position to receive what God has already provided by grace.

Faith is not Gods response, faith is our response. Faith move us, God has already moved through His beloved Son, Christ Jesus.

      4.      Faith does not cause a positive response to move God, why? Because faith is a positive        response from us, not from God. God has already responded positively.

You say, I’m healed, I am prosperous, delivered. God says Amen. He has already responded. Faith is not God responding positively… it is us responding positively. 

5.      Faith is our positive response to what is already provided. The question is, how are we responding?

6.      Faith only takes possession of what grace has already made available. That is what faith does. It takes possession of what already been done. Grace makes… faith takes.

7.      If God had not already provided it independent of your effort and prior to your need then your faith can’t make it happen.

God has already done it. Your faith is about possessing what has already been done. Not about God manufacturing it when you have a need.

What most people are calling living by faith is doubting everything that God has already done.

We are asking God to do something by faith when God has already done it. It is pure evidence that most don’t believe that through Christ Jesus He has already done it.

The last words Jesus spoke on the cross was it is finished.  We keep thinking, I am going to use my faith to get it done.

God says you’re not going to use your faith to get it done. Our faith is to be used to get what has already been done.

Your response is your faith. Your response is your key; your response has to be an unlikely response, unlike someone who would respond in the natural.

To get every situation to every circumstance to every need, if you can respond based on what Jesus has already done, it will be an un-natural response.

Every time you respond un-natural (not in the worlds way), God is going to release a supernatural response.

You will turn on a supernatural response based on how you respond to a situation.

What if you lost your job, had care repairs. How would you respond? Would you say, Oh what ever will I do, you won’t receive a supernatural response from God with that natural worldly response to your problem.

You can’t receive from the supernatural by responding in the natural.

Mark 6: 45-50   ⁴⁵ And straightway he constrained his disciples to get into the ship, and to go to the other side before unto Bethsaida, while he sent away the people.

⁴⁶ And when he had sent them away, he departed into a mountain to pray.

⁴⁷ And when even was come, the ship was in the midst of the sea, and he alone on the land.

⁴⁸ And he saw them toiling in rowing; for the wind was contrary unto them: and about the fourth watch of the night he cometh unto them, walking upon the sea, and would have passed by them.

⁴⁹ But when they saw him walking upon the sea, they supposed it had been a spirit, and cried out:

⁵⁰ For they all saw him, and were troubled. And immediately he talked with them, and saith unto them, Be of good cheer: it is I; be not afraid.

Straightway means now or suddenly in this context. Constrained means forced.

You don’t want to be in trouble and have Jesus pass you by. Seems like even Christians stay in trouble and it seems like Jesus is passing them by.

If you don’t want Jesus to pass you by you had better cry out. Jesus told them to be of good cheer, not to be afraid. This was a natural response. However, in the supernatural all things are possible.