Victory Life KY

FaithTime II

Episode Summary

Faith actually starts as a conviction in the human soul, established by the unveiling of the truth in God’s word with supernatural vitality and enlightening clarity, to the degree that you have this fixed expectation from what God has told you, you have this divinely inspired trust.

Episode Notes

• Listen to God's Words from the prophet Isaiah, in chapter 46,
• I am GOD, the only God, incomparable and irreplaceable.
• From the very beginning telling you what the ending will be.
• Assuring you, I’m with you. Assuring you I’ll do exactly what I set out to do. 
• I’ve said it, and I’ll most certainly do it. I’ve planned it, so it’s as good as done.

• Remember , without revelation, without the unveiling of the truth in God’s word with supernatural vitality and enlightening clarity, 
• statements like this one form the Almighty will continue to be some mysterious, just out of reach idea that continues feeding our unbelief. The primary killer of our faith.

• Seriously, you think Jesus was just playing games when He said, “All things are possible to him that believes.”
• What about this one, “Without faith it’s impossible to please God.”

• This is Paul’s point in Galatians, “The life I now live, I live by faith in Christ.”

• This is why Paul talked to us about having genuine, true, authentic faith. And it starts with us having a clear, biblical understanding, with enlightened clarity of exactly what faith is.

• Remember, out of the book of Hebrews, Faith is spiritual substance, evidence, faith is the reality of things we can’t see.

• MSG, The fundamental fact of our existence is that this TRUST in God, this FAITH, is the firm foundation under everything that makes life worth living. It’s our handle on what we can’t see. 

• Faith actually starts as a conviction in the human soul, established by the unveiling of the truth in God’s word with supernatural vitality and enlightening clarity, to the degree that you have this fixed expectation from what God has told you, you have this divinely inspired trust.

• This is why the apostle Paul told us in Colossians, that the same way we received Christ is how we are to live our new lives in Him.

• Being a Christian isn't just knowing about Jesus, it’s living like Jesus.

• I honestly don't think God gave us new lives in Christ just to hang around here doing our own thing until we get to Heaven.

• Living by faith chooses to accept what God tells us. In an unwavering  confidence, completely trusting what He tells us.

• I am GOD, the only God, incomparable and irreplaceable.
• From the very beginning telling you what the ending will be.
• Assuring you, I’m with you. Assuring you I’ll do exactly what I set out to do. 
• I’ve said it, and I’ll most certainly do it. I’ve planned it, so it’s as good as done.

• This kind of life of faith is a direct result of what Paul is referring to when he’s talking about walking in the spirit, not in the flesh.

• There has to be transformation in our thinking before our will allows us to engage in a different dimension, to engage in spiritual living. 

• Paul says, “It’s what we trust in but don’t yet see that keeps us going.”

• 2 Corinthians 5:7,AMP- We walk by faith, not by sight, living our lives in a manner consistent with our CONFIDENT BELIEF IN GOD’S PROMISES.

• NLT- We life by believing, not by seeing.

• One of our greatest examples of faith comes from the father of faith, Abraham. We have to remember, first thing God told him was to leave his old way of living. 

• Romans 4:20-21,NLT- Abraham never wavered in believing God’s promise. In fact, his faith grew stronger, and in this he brought glory to God. He was fully convinced that God is able to do whatever He promises.

• The more we embrace a God inspired mindset, the more we put into practice our new life. This is why James tells us that real faith has an action connected to it.

• A very simple approach to a life of faith is this; FAITH GETS READY!!

• One of my favorite John Wooden quotes is, “When opportunity shows up, its to late to get ready.”

• Remember 2 Corinthians 5:7, We live our lives in a manner consistent with our confident beliefs in what God has promised. Think about how often Jesus was on His disciples about their faith.

• Mark 11:22-23,NIV- “Have faith in God,” Jesus answered. “Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them.”

• Jesus's instructions are in response to the disciples seeing what happened after Jesus spoke to a tree.

• And when they questioned Him about the tree, He basically gave them this command; "Have faith in God" In other words, have such a conviction in our soul that it produces a fixed expectation from what God has told us.

• Then He instructed them to speak faith to their situations, to their mountains. But what I’ve discovered over the years is that most of us talk about our mountain instead of speaking to it. 
• Anybody know why? 

• Now in light of what Jesus has told us, let me say this; faith isn't magic. And it's definitely not some confession formula for getting things from God.

• Truth is, the things of the Kingdom have already been established. All the promises of God, in Him are yes and amen.

• This is why, according to Jesus Himself, speaking divinely inspired words over your situation is exactly what He was instructing us to do in His faith lesson in Mark.

• His lesson for them then, and for us now is that we would know how to live in our born again nature, from a spiritual world, all while confined to this natural world.

• This is what Paul was talking about in Romans when he said that the righteousness of God is REVEALED from faith to faith; as it is written, The just shall Live By Faith.

• Live by the unveiling of the essence of the truth in God’s word with supernatural vitality and enlightening clarity.

• Understand living a life of faith doesn’t automatically happen anymore than our natural living happens.

• Think about it, they both require training and development. Romans shows us how Abraham grew stronger in his faith, not wavering at God’s promise.

• 2 Thessalonians 1:3,NIV- We ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters, and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love all of you have for one another is increasing.

• Galatians makes it very clear, The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.

• Because God has designed us to live by faith, we’ve got to get to the place where we allow what He says to shape and strengthen what we actually believe. How we actually live.

• By revelation, by the unveiling of the truth in God’s word with supernatural vitality and enlightening clarity.

• Listen to God's Words from the prophet Isaiah,
• I am GOD, the only God, incomparable and irreplaceable.
• From the very beginning telling you what the ending will be.
• Assuring you, I’m with you. Assuring you I’ll do exactly what I set out to do. 
• I’ve said it, and I’ll most certainly do it. I’ve planned it, so it’s as good as done.

• Faith simply chooses to accept that when God tells us He knows our end from our beginning, and that He'll be with us every step of the way, we accept Him at His word.

• This means that during our journey of faith, when everything doesn’t look perfect, according to what God says, if we don’t lost heart, if we don’t quit, what He said will happen.

• Faith boldly says stuff like, "I'm coming out, this too will pass, I cannot be defeated, I’m highly favored and anointed and I'm not going to quit.

• Faith talks more about how big God is instead of how big the problem is.

• Faith knows that what looks like a setback is really a setup for my next victory. Because God always leads us to victory.

• Throughout the bible, one theme you'll see repeatedly is that God uses what appears to be opposition to elevate His people to higher levels of success.

• We’ve got to keep this in front of our thinking, real, genuine faith starts as a conviction in the human soul, established by the unveiling of God’s word with supernatural vitality and enlightening clarity, 
• to the degree that you have this fixed expectation from what God has told you, you have this divinely inspired trust.

• Remember 2 Corinthians 5:7, We live our lives in a manner consistent with our confident beliefs in what God has promised.