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Saturday July 16, 2022
TO GET THE YAHWEH-KIND OF FAITH (2): KNOW THE REALITY OF OUR REDEMPTION IN HAMASHIACH
18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, … 19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
I Peter 1:18-19 (KJV)
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Friday July 15, 2022
TO GET THE YAHWEH-KIND OF FAITH (1): KNOW THE INTEGRITY OF YAHWEH’S WORD
I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.
Psalms 138:2 (KJV)
Faith is a function of the knowledge of Yahweh. You cannot exercise faith beyond the level of revelation of the Lord Yahushua that you have. Psalm 9:2 (KJV) says, ‘And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, Lord, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.’ This follows that if you don’t have faith in Yahweh, it is the proof of your bankruptcy of the knowledge of Yahweh. You cannot Know Yahweh and not trust Him. One aspect of the knowledge of Yahweh that helps you to function in highest kind of faith is the knowledge of the integrity of the Word of Yahweh. When we talk about integrity, we talk about the infallibility, unbreakability and reliability of the Word of Yahweh.
The first step necessary to attain the highest kind of faith is to know the integrity of Yahweh’s Word. You must know that Yahweh’s Word is actually what it declares itself to be. The Word of Yahweh is a revelation from Yahweh to us. We should also realize that the Bible is Yahweh speaking to us now – today. The Bible is not only a Book of the past and a Book of the future, but it is a Book of the now. This Book, the Bible, is a Yahweh-breathed, a Yahweh-indwelt, and a Yahweh-inspired message. HEBREWS 4:12 (KJV) says, ‘12 For the word of God is QUICK, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.“ Moffatt’s translation reads, “For the Logos [Word] of God is a living thing. . . .” You see, “quick” means alive or living. And so the Word of Yahweh is a living thing. But it will only come alive to you and work in your life as you accept it and act upon it. Therefore, the first step to attaining the highest kind of faith is to settle on the absolute integrity of Yahweh’s Word. The Word of Yahweh should be of foremost importance in your life. Sometimes folks feel that Yahweh hasn’t spoken to them unless they have received a message in tongues or a prophecy, but Yahweh’s Word – the Bible – is Yahweh speaking to us! And tongues and interpretations or prophecy are not to be put above the holy written Word of Yahweh.
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Thursday July 14, 2022
HOW TO FEED AND EXERCISE YOUR FAITH
So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Romans 10:17 (KJV)
Many people wonder why they are not growing in faith. Many times, it is because they are not feeding on Yahweh’s Word. Faith will grow by feeding it and exercising it. We feed our faith by reading and meditating on the Word, and by hearing the Word of Yahweh being preached. We exercise faith by being doers of the Word, and not hearers only. James said, “But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only. ..” (James 1:22). Being doers of the Word means that we act on the Word. Simply reading and meditating upon the Word will not build faith. Reading and meditating on the Word will feed your faith and build a capacity for faith, but faith must also be a part of our daily speech. In other words, the Word that you feed on has to be exercised daily. It has to become a part of your daily speech. That word has to become a part of your daily conduct and actions.
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Wednesday July 13, 2022
FEAR IS FAITH IN REVERSE
For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
Job 3:25 (KJV)
In a way, everybody has faith. When you believe and confess things not consistent with scriptures, you have faith in the devil. Faith in the devil is called fear. So fear is simply faith in reverse gear. There is power in faith, in believing. Yahushua told the centurion,” …Go thy way; and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee.” (see Matthew 8:13). Believing is not something you always like to do, or always feel like doing. It’s a decision you make. Just as faith is a powerful force, there is also a force opposed to faith called fear. Fear is the reverse gear of faith. It is actually faith in the devil. Fear is faith that the wickedness of Satan is superior than the goodness of Yahweh. Fear is faith that Yahweh is helpless in the face of the cruelty of the wicked and that evil is more powerful than good and must occur.
If faith is the substance of things desired, then fear is the substance of things not desired but believed that will happen and Yahweh cannot do anything about it. The reason you fear a thing is because you believe in its manifestation. That’s why you worry. You believe in the manifestation of the thing you worry about; otherwise, you wouldn’t worry. If you don’t control fear or stop it, it will bring the very thing that you don’t desire to manifestation.
Job in our text is a classic example of this. ‘For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me. I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.’ (Job 3:25-26). Job practised his fear and greatly feared. Though he was in safety, he didn’t know it. Fear is Satan’s inroad into your life. Yahweh said, “He is in your hands.” Yahweh didn’t put Job there; he was already in the power of the devil because of fear. Fear will also tear your hedge down.
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Tuesday July 12, 2022
FAITH AND WORK: ANY CONFLICT?
But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
James 2:20 (KJV)
Romans 3:27-28 (BBE) says, ‘What reason, then, is there for pride? It is shut out. By what sort of law? of works? No, but by a law of faith. For this reason, then, a man may get righteousness by faith without the works of the law.’ Apostle Paul is saying that you don’t need the works of the law to emerge the righteousness of Yahweh in HaMashiach. That the works of the law cannot get you saved, only faith in Yahushua HaMashiach can. James 2:26 (NET) says, ‘For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.’ Apostle James is saying that if your faith in Yahushua HaMashiach does not produce good works, that your faith is dead. Now, the question is: Is there a conflict between the view of Apostle Paul and Apostle James? The answer is emphatically NO. There is no conflict whatsoever between the views of these Apostles. They are saying two different things and it is important you understand it.
Apostle Paul was addressing a false teaching that faith in Yahushua HaMashiach alone was not enough for salvation, that you must have to observe the law otherwise you couldn’t be saved. The teachers of these falsehood were insisting that new believers be circumcised and observe the law otherwise they are not saved. But the works of the law cannot save anybody. If it could, then there wouldn’t have been need for Yahushua HaMashiach to come and die. No person can be saved by observing the law. Observing the law is good because the law is the commandment of Yahweh but it is grossly impotent in securing salvation for humanity. If you want to be saved, the only way is to believe in the sacrifice of Yahushua HaMashiach and receive Him into your spirit/heart by confessing Him as Lord and Saviour. As simple as this is, it is the only way to be saved.
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Monday July 11, 2022
HOW TO ACTIVATE YOUR FAITH (2): ACT ON THE WORD
And when he saw them, he said unto them, Go shew yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were cleansed.
Luke 17:14 (KJV)
Faith is not a mystery. Faith is responding in obedience to the Word of the Lord – the Bible. Stop struggling to believe; just behave the Word and you commit the one that spoke it to perform. Do you know Yahweh has exalted his Word above all His name? Psalm 138:2 says, “I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.”. One of the things that cannot fail in life is the Word of Yahweh – the Bible. If you can find what is written and act on it, you can rewrite your story. As a believer, you are not helpless and powerless. Faith is the force that makes the almightiness of Yahweh available at your instance. The process of producing proofs is get what is written, activate it by speaking to yourself, devil and Yahweh, receive it by acting out your side of the deal. Every word of Yahweh gives you opportunity of a response.
Ten leprous men came to Yahushua and from a distance shouted to Him, ‘Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.’(Luke 17:13 KJV). In His compassion, The Lord Jesus responded, ‘Go show yourselves to the priests’. What they do with that instruction was going to determine the outcome they would have from their encounter with the Lord Yahushua. Are you sick? What is that request you have been making to the Lord? The link to your manifestation is your response to the Word. The Bible says, ‘and it came to pass, that as they went, they were cleansed.’ This is something to shout about! As they went, they were cleansed. Acting on the Word, always produces what the Word talks about. When we act on Yahweh’s Word, that’s faith. And when we’re in faith, we will receive answers to prayer. If we fail to act on Yahweh’s Word, just waiting for something to come to us first before we’ll believe, we will not receive what we need from Yahweh.
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Sunday July 10, 2022
HOW TO ACTIVATE YOUR FAITH (1): YOUR CONFESSION
For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
Mark 11:23 (KJV)
There is the law of faith that you must learn today. This law of faith states that CONFESSION OF THE PROMISES OF YAHWEH COMES BEFORE POSSESSION OF THE PROMISES. We must learn this law if we are going to be successful. I boldly declare and confess Yahweh’s Word, then and only then do I possess the promised blessing or benefit. I make my lips do the work. I give the Word its place. I take sides with the Word. If I side in with the disease and pain, there is no healing for me. But I repudiate the disease and the sickness with my words, which are an expression of my faith in Yahweh’s Word. My confession gives me possession.
Faith is governed by our confession. If I say that I have been prayed for and I am waiting for Yahweh to heal me, then I am not in faith and I have repudiated my healing. Instead, my confession should be this: “The Word declares that I am healed. Based on Yahweh’s Word, I thank the Father for my healing now, not when I see my healing. And I praise Him I am healed because according to His Word it is a fact.”
Think of it this way: As humans, we are constantly affirming something. Sometimes our affirmations are disastrous. In other words, the effects of your own words upon your life have the power to defeat you. For example, if you continually say you can’t do something because you don’t have the strength, you will begin to feel your strength actually diminishing. You are left weak and full of indecision and doubt. Your efficiency is gone. An affirmation or a confession is the expression of what we believe, whether good or bad. The confession of my faith created the reality of it. Some people continually confess the wrong thing. They confess their doubt and failure. They little realize that their negative confession robs them of their ability and efficiency. They little realize that their confession can change the solid, straight road of life into a boggy, clogged mire. The confession of weakness will bind you and hold you in captivity. Talk poverty and you will have plenty of it. Confess your want or lack of money all of the time and you will always have lack. These principles of confessing work because they are in the Word.
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Saturday July 9, 2022
CALLING THE THINGS THAT BE NOT AS THOUGH THEY WERE
… before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.
Romans 4:17B [KJV]
The Yahweh-kind of faith calls the things that are not as though they were. This is one vital manifestation of the Yahweh-kind of faith that you must start practising from today. In Genesis 1:2 (KJV), the word says that ‘And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.’ When you see issues in your life and they look wasted and without form, don’t complain and wail. Do what Yahweh did. Genesis 1:3 (KJV) says, ‘And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.’ Yahweh started calling the things that were not presently real into reality. ‘Light, be!’ Yahweh called. As Yahweh called them forth, the things that be not, become. This is one of the principal tenets of faith. You must ignore the situation and speak your expectation. Until you call forth your expectation, you cannot experience manifestation. You desire to be married, start calling forth your husband, wherever he is under the sun to show up and don’t stop or waiver until he shows. In any area of expectation, call forth your desire that be not as though they were.
Yahweh came to Abram one day and started calling the things that be not in Abram as though they were. He said, ‘As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.’ (Genesis 17:4 KJV). ‘Even though you Abram is barren and don’t have children, I call you father of many nations and I change your name to Abraham’, Yahweh said. Yahweh called forth the destiny of Abraham and Sarah of being father and mother of many nations when they were still barren. That is the Yahweh-kind of faith in operation. Beloved, don’t wait for your situation to change because it will not change without applying the force of faith to it. Start calling forth the things that be not in your life now as though they were. People may mock you and make jest of you, that is their business. When your story changes, the same people will change their talk.
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Friday July 8, 2022
FAITH IS DIFFERENT FROM HOPE
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Hebrews 11:1 (KJV)
There is a difference between faith and hope. Hope is confident expectation of a good future or salvation. Hope is in the future. Hope never materializes because once it materializes it is no longer hope. This is very instructive and striking, never miss it. As long as you are in hope, you will never see your hope materialize because if it does, hope ceases to exist. Romans 8:24 (KJV) says, ‘For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?’ For as long as you are in the realm of hope, you will lack manifestations, because there is always tomorrow and tomorrow never comes. But faith is now. Faith is bringing hope into present reality. Thank Yahweh we do have a Blessed Hope. The Blessed Hope of the Church is the soon return of the Lord Yahushua HaMashiach, the resurrection of the saved dead, the rapture of the living saints, the hope of heaven, and the hope of seeing our loved ones and friends. Thank Yahweh for that hope. We rejoice in that hope, but that’s all future tense. Jesus is coming again, whether we believe it or not. He is coming because the Word says so. The resurrection, rapture and the return of the Lord is going to take place whether we have faith in it or not.
Faith is the force that converts your hope into your present hour inheritance. Moffatt’s translation of this verse reads: “Now faith means that we are confident of what we hope for, convinced of what we do not see.” One modern translation of Hebrews 11:1 reads: “Faith is giving substance … to things hoped for.” What Yahweh is simply telling us is that faith is laying hold of the unseen realm of hope and bringing it into the realm of reality. Too many times when it comes to receiving the Holy Spirit or healing or an answer to prayer, many people are just simply hoping they will receive and as long as they abide in hope, frustration abounds.
But it’s not hoping that gets the job done; it’s believing.
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Thursday July 7, 2022
HOW DOES FAITH COME?
So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Romans 10:17 (KJV)
Faith is the gift that the Holy Spirit imparts to your spirit upon hearing the gospel of Yahushua HaMashiach. So faith comes primarily by hearing the Word of HaMashiach. Someone had said that the second hearing in our text is understanding; so that the text could read faith comes by hearing and understanding the word of HaMashiach without doing the text any injustice. It is not anything that you hear that gives you faith; it is hearing the word of HaMashiach. So, you must be careful of what you hear. You are absolutely responsible for what enters your ears or what you see. Some hearing imparts fear. Just as faith comes by hearing the Word of HaMashiach, fear comes by hearing the word of Satan and evil people. So guarding what you hear becomes very paramount.
The hearing that brings faith comes in these ways:
1. Reading the Bible by the help of the Holy Spirit imparts faith. It is understanding that brings faith and it is the Holy Spirit that brings illumination to our spirits. Light from the Bible is what imparts faith in the heart of people. That was the case of Daniel in 9:2, “In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.”
2. Studying the Bible by the help of the Holy Spirit imparts faith. In studying the scripture, you pick a particular topic or character and seek to know as much as the Word says about it. When you are through with a study, your faith is boosted in that area of the knowledge of Yahweh. (see II Timothy 2:15)
3. Meditating on the Word of Yahweh by the help of the Holy Spirit imparts faith. To meditate is to mutter, to speak to yourself the word of Yahweh. Meditation is confessing the word to yourself loudly or silently. (see Joshua 1:8)
4. Hearing the testimonies of the acts of Yahweh imparts faith. Testimonies bring faith in Yahweh into your spirit and emboldens you to trust Him for replication of that act. (see Revelation 12:11)
5. Speaking in the tongues of the Spirit imparts faith. Jude 1:20 (NET) says, ‘But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith, by praying in the Holy Spirit,’. As you speak in tongues, the word settles in your spirit-man with powerful conviction that kill every form of doubt.
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