Faith Is Not Blind When Christ Is Your Focus!
HOW?
1.- FOCUS ON HIS CHARACTER AND WORK;
“fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. ” – { Heb 12:2}
2.- SCRIPTURE; GET IN THEM WITH PURPOSE TO SEE HIM;
” Then beginning with Moses and with all the prophets, He {The Lord JESUS,} explained to them the things concerning Himself in ALL THE SCRIPTURES “-{ Luke 24:27};
3. – MEDITATE, CONTEMPLATE HIM;
“And we all, who with unveiled faces CONTEMPLATE the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into His image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit. “- { 2 Cor 3:18}
4. – PRAYER TO HIM;
“Open my eyes, that I may SEE {Contemplate ,behold} Wonderful things from Your law. ” – {Psalm 119:18}
5. – DEPENDENCE UPON HIM FOR INSIGHT;
“Then HE opened their minds to understand the Scriptures,”- {Luke 24:45}
6.- FAITH, SCRIPTURE, YOUR OBEDIENCE -{PERSONAL APPLICATION};
“So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the Word of Christ….DO NOT merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. DO what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do.”- {Rom 10:17; James 1:22-25}”
7. – LIVE OUT;
” For we live by believing and not by seeing.”- { 2 Cor 5:7 NLT}
Consider…
* Your Faith is Tested, in order to… PRODUCE, develop perseverance, as weight training is to the body faith is tested in order to build you and strengthen spiritually. -{Read James 1:3;Rom 5:4-5;}
* Your Tested Faith has… A PURPOSE and an end. To display your faith under pressure is genuinely anchored in and upon the Lord Jesus. And the end results in praise, glory honor at His revealing-“so that the authenticity of your faith–more precious than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire–may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.- {1 Peter 1:7}
* Your Faith can… TRIUMPH over difficulties, either through deliverance from or sustaining you in-{Read Heb chapter 11}
* Exercising Your Faith …GLORIFIES GOD – “Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, “So shall your offspring be.”[d] 19 Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead—since he was about a hundred years old—and that Sarah’s womb was also dead. 20 Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, 21 being fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised “-{Rom 4:18-21}
Faith… PLEASES God. “…without faith it is IMPOSSIBLE to Please God.”-{Heb 11:6}
Faith Is Not Blind When Christ Is Your Focus! – 🙂