“What good is it, my brethren, if a man professes to have faith, and yet his actions do not correspond. Someone will say, ‘You have faith, I have actions: prove to me your faith apart from corresponding actions and I will prove mine to you by my actions.’ You notice that Abraham’s faith was cooperating with his actions, and that by his actions his faith was perfected” (James 2:14,18,22).

Step 2: Do it.
It wouldn’t have done that woman with the issue of blood any good to have said, “If I may but touch His clothes I shall be whole,” if she hadn’t acted on what she said.

Jesus said to me in that vision, “Your actions defeat you, or they put you over. According to your actions, you receive, or you are kept from receiving.”        That’s important. Read it again.

The Book of James is written to believers. James said, “What doth it profit, my brethren?” Most people think James was writing about salvation, but he was writing to people who were already saved, pointing out that faith without corresponding actions won’t work.

It is a great mistake to confess faith in the Word of God and, at the same time, contradict your confession by wrong actions. Actions must correspond with your saying and believing in order to receive from God.

This woman said, “If I may touch but His clothes, I shall be whole,” and then she acted on that and she received!

Confession: My actions line up with God’s Word. My actions put me over. By my actions I receive from God!

(Taken by permission from RHEMA Bible Church , aka Kenneth Hagin Ministries , Tulsa , OK , USA.  www.rhema.org )