So it is with faith: if it is alone and includes no actions, then it is dead. But someone will say, One person has faith, another has actions.” My answer is, “Show me how anyone can have faith without actions. I will show you my faith by my actions (James 2:17-18 GNB).
When acting in faith, you don’t negotiate God’s instructions; you act on them. Faith doesn’t say, “Well, I know the Word of God says thus-and-thus, but let’s face facts!” Faith doesn’t consider facts; it considers the Word and acts NOW! So, the faith that works is that which doesn’t negotiate the Word but believes what God says, speaks and acts accordingly.
When you hear the Word of God which says for example, “By whose stripes ye were healed” (1 Peter 2:24), don’t consider the doctor’s diagnosis or the pain or symptoms you might be feeling; act on the Word and say “Thank you Father, by the stripes of Jesus, I was healed!” And then you get off the sickbed and act like someone that’s been healed by doing those things you couldn’t do before.
Act on the Word today, for that’s faith. It gives no consideration to natural circumstances, but leaps at the Word. That was what Abraham did; the Bible says “And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah’s womb: …(Romans 4:19). From the natural standpoint, the facts before Abraham were completely at variance to God’s Word to him that he would be the father of many nations. But Abraham didn’t allow those fact dissipate his faith and confidence in the Word of God. He held tenaciously to God’s Word, fully persuaded that God’s Word, not the natural facts of life, is absolute reality.
Once you receive the Word concerning any area of your life, act accordingly, for faith is action added to the Word of God that you’ve believed. Each time you pray, rejoice like someone that has received. Notice I didn’t say, “rejoice so you’ll receive”; rather rejoice, knowing that you’ve received!” That’s the faith principle!
In as much as faith doesn’t deny natural facts, it doesn’t consider them as well! Rather, faith denies those facts the ability or authority to control the circumstances of your existence while depending on the Word of God as the basis and assurance for action!
Confession
Dear Father, your Word is my life, and the light by which I live. I receive with gladness, meekness and faith your Word concerning my success, health, victory and prosperity, and I act in consonance with that Word today! I declare that my faith is alive and producing results as a result of what I’ve learnt today, in the Name of Jesus. Amen.
Further Study: Romans 4:17-22: (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were. [18] Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations; according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be…James 2:21-22 WNT
(Taken by permission from Christ Embassy Church , aka Believer’s LoveWorld Ministries , Lagos, Nigeria. www.ChristEmbassy.org )
