Category: What Is Faith? What Is Living By Faith?
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Faith or Fear
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Faith and fear are on opposite sides of the same pole, because they both PRODUCE a result.
Faith is from God.
Fear is from the devil.
By faith you can receive things you desire or hope for.
By fear you can receive things you don’t desire and don’t hope for.
When we allow fear in, faith leaves.
Fear can push faith out of our hearts and minds
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faith can push fear out of hearts and minds.
The decision is up to us.
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What we choose to meditate on daily, is a large factor determining what we will believe …. whether we will believe good will always come to us, or whether we will believe that bad will always come to us.
Again, whatever we keep before our eyes will sway our thoughts, our feelings, and our beliefs.
If we choose to keep the Word of God before our eyes continually, faith will grow {Romans 10:17} and we will believe God is for us and not against us.
But, if we choose to keep bad news and bad reports constantly before our eyes (in the form of the news media, or a doctors report, or hanging around people who only speak of the terrible things in life) then we will believe that bad wins out in life, and that bad will be apart of our life.
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We get to choose what to believe.
Yes, this is true. WE get to choose.
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We can choose to keep our thoughts and focus on God’s Word and so build our faith for good for our life
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we can choose to keep our attention and thoughts on the negatives of the world and so build our fear that bad will come to us.
We CAN choose to believe God at His Word, that a thousand may fall at our side, or ten thousand may fall at our right hand, but it will NOT come near us or our family members
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we can choose to believe that the Swine Flu is a pandemic which will certainly get us too; or that the water supply certainly is contaminated and is definitely harming our bodies; or that the pesticides on the fruits and veggies are wrecking havoc on our systems; or that …. well, you get the picture.
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Whatever we give power to, by our believing, that will have domination over us.
Whether we give power to satan through fear
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whether we give power to God through faith.
It is by believing the enemy at his word, that the bad report will happen, that we give him power and the ability to enter in and do what he threatened to do.
But it is also by believing God at His Word, believing that what God Promised will be done for us, that we give Him power and the ability to enter into our lives and do what He Promised to do.
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Fear is faith in the negative.
Fear is faith (believing) that a negative report, an unwanted or undesired thing will come upon us … and our actions, our words, and our lifestyles always show if we truly believe the negative/bad report is coming to pass in our life!
And Biblical Faith is believing the Word of God, the desired, hoped for and longed for report (or Promises) will come to pass in our life … and again, we will always act, walk, and talk like the Bible is True, when we believe it to be Truth for us.
Faith or Fear.
We choose.
But God already told us what to choose,
if we will listen to His Words:
“Choose life”
{Deut 30: 15,19}
“Choose prosperity”
{Deut 28:11, Deut 30:9,15}
“Choose blessing”
{Deut 28:2, Deut 30:19}
Amen.
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“Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen …”
{Hebrews 11:1}
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