God
Moves When You Move
Even so
faith [pistis –
believing], if
it hath not works [action], is dead,
being alone. – James 2: 17
What people don’t
realize today is that they are God’s hands, legs and mouth. Until you believe and
act upon God’s Word, God will not move. As said many times in the world, you
will believe it when you see it. But with God, you will see it when you believe
it. It’s just the opposite of what the world teaches and that is just the norm.
When you ACT upon Gods
Word, THEN you will see results. You can pray until you are blue in the face,
but unless you act on what you are praying about, NOTHING WILL HAPPEN.
As the Scripture says,
believing without action is dead or worthless, being by itself. Again, God reiterates:
For as the
body without the spirit is dead, so faith [believing] without
works [action] is dead also. – James 2:
26
When God says something
twice, He establishes that fact.
And for that
the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice; it is because the thing is
established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass. – Genesis
41: 32
Man’s basic spiritual
problem is the integrity and accuracy of God’s Word. Most people today do not
even read the Bible, but put everything else before God. This is modern-day
idolatry. This presents quite a problem. How can man take action on something
he isn’t even aware of? This is the state that the world is in today and it is
getting worse and worse and worse. We have been promised many great things by
God Almighty if we adhere to and obey His Word.
Whereby [by which] are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises:
that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the
corruption [getting worse, and worse, and worse] that is in the world through lust [over-desire]. – II Peter 1: 4
Because the world is
getting worse and worse and worse, that should not affect our more than
abundant life with God…………… IF we are applying
the Word in our lives. It is not enough just to believe – we must act. THEN God
can move. THEN you will see signs, miracles and wonders in your life. As I have
heard it said: We need to take our foot off the hose. We limit God greatly in
our life by our lack of believing and lack of action. So why don’t’ we just
stop? It really is that simple if you get honest with yourself. God gave us
free will – the ability to act in whatever way we please.
You might want to refer
to the teachings on ‘Believing’ before you proceed any farther. Jesus Christ
summed up the law of believing in one verse.
And all
things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive. –
Matthew 21: 22
You must believe and
there are two sides to believing – positive and negative. On the positive side
you have confidence, trust, faith (believing). On the negative side, you have
doubt, worry, fear. Believing equals receiving. You CANNOT believe on the
positive side UNLESS you study and apply God’s Word. The devil is now the god
of this world so he will bring you only doubt, worry, and fear.
In whom the
god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the
light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine
unto them. – II Corinthians 4: 4
I’ve got to tell it
like it is. If you are not studying and applying God’s Word every day, you are
living for the devil. He will get all the use he can out of you and then toss
you aside and destroy you. You have everything to gain by studying and applying
God’s Word and nothing to lose. God’s Word is our blueprint for living.
Let us hear
the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for
this is the whole duty of man. – Ecclesiastes 12: 13
CAN YOU IMAGINE THAT?!
CAN GOD PUT IT ANY SIMPLER? Keeping the commandments of God is the complete
duty of man. Man has no other true alternative with the exception of suffering
every day, but to adhere to and become addicted to God’s Word which is God’s
Will. That is our blueprint for living. When we do this, we can believe in a
positive manner and therefore act in a positive manner and then God can move as
we move. If we speak God’s Word, God can plant seeds and He can move. If we are
afraid to speak His Word, we limit God and we also face negative consequences.
Here is the clincher. The only thing that will remove
fear from a man or woman’s life IS God’s Word.
God is trying to help us all the time while the devil is trying to destroy us –
your vote determines the election. But don’t take my word for it. How do we
learn to believe positively?
Every born-again
believer gets the faith of Jesus Christ. Everyone gets the same amount and you
can’t get anymore. Let’s examine these two verses before we get further into
the ‘faith of Jesus Christ’.
That if thou
shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart
that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart
man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto
salvation. -- Romans 10: 9, 10
This is how you receive
the ‘faith of Jesus Christ’. This faith makes it available for you to BELIEVE.
This ability increases more and more as you study God’s Word.
So then
faith cometh by hearing, and
hearing by the word of God. – Romans 10: 17
You won’t get faith by
watching the evening news or reading Newsweek or Reader’s Digest. You’ll get it
by reading one thing – THE WORD OF GOD. Believe and speak the Word of God and
it will yield the same results that it produced at any time in the history of
civilization. To the extent that we abide in the Word of God, that Word takes
the Master’s place in our lives. We will become more and more like Jesus Christ
and continue destroying the works of the devil until Christ comes back. As you
can see, the greater our believing and action on the Word, the more God can
move. But again, don’t take my word for it. That is what’s different about this
web site. The Word of God is the center of reference for all learning – nothing
but the Word.
Study to
shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed,
rightly dividing the word of truth. – II Timothy 2: 15
The phrase ‘rightly
dividing’ are two words used together only once in the New Testament. It means
a perfectly right cutting, not guesswork, which is referred to in the Word as
private interpretation. Again, we do not ‘water down’ God’s Word at this site.
We speak and teach the Word and nothing but the Word. Some search engines won’t
pick me up because my site is purposely plain and simple. There are no dating
services, fancy bells and whistles, no banners and billboards and no apologies!
When called by God to teach the path of life as compared to the world’s path of
death, I THINK WE SHOULD BE SERIOUS about it. I was going to say you know where
those search engines could go, but they are already there. I don’t dislike
anyone, but truth is truth. Tell it like it is. It’s a good song by ‘Heart’.
Don’t let the adversary scare you. Oftentimes he is just roaring and he can’t
bite you when he is roaring. If he scares you to where you won’t move on God’s
Word, then he’s got you. So the more Word you know and apply, the less fear you
will have in your life and the more God can move AND the more you will
experience the more than abundant life. Are there people that teach half-truths
and water down and corrupt God’s Word?
For we are
not as many, which corrupt [water down] the word of God: but as of
sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ. – II
Corinthians 2: 17
You will find many on
television [better
have your pocketbook handy], many on the radio, many on pulpits and many
so-called youth movements for Christ. Do you know what waving your hands up in
the air and yelling and screaming like a bunch of mentally ill people
accomplishes? NOTHING! YOU HAVE
GOT TO ASK YOURSELF:
Where is the Word of God?
How much of the Word of
God have you heard? How much of the Word have you been taught? The boob-tube
preachers like to talk and tell a lot of stories – have you noticed? The kids are
jumping up and down and waving hands AND praying ALL AT ONE TIME. You wonder
why people stay away from so-called Christianity. Who is behind all this? Don’t
you know? I saw this on television lately – a bunch of idiots being outrightly
deceived and why. They don’t know one simple
Scripture.
Let all
things be done decently and in order. – I Corinthians 14: 40
What does that mean? IT
MEANS DECENT AND IN ORDER.
For God is
not the author [a God]
of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints. – I Corinthians
14: 33
God is a God of peace
and order. Where?! In all churches of the saints. Since there is nothing but
confusion and deception in so many of these so-called movements and ministries,
their source CANNOT be the true God, but the counterfeit God of this world.
Does it make sense? Has it sunk in? I am trying to protect you from these
devilish influences. Excuse my anger if it appears that way. Build on your
strong points you’ve learned from the Word of God and remember, the renewed
mind is built one brick at a time. It takes a long time, but it gets a little
better each day and you become a little stronger each day. Then you can tell
your adversary to stay in hell and away you. By putting God FIRST, you allow
God to move in your life.
But seek ye
first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be
added unto you. – Matthew 6: 33
What things shall be
added unto us? Go back to verse 28 and there God begins to assure us that we
really have nothing to ever worry about WHEN we keep Him first. I have a note
in my Bible next to verse 33 that says "and He will handle everything
else". God mentions physical needs here, but we know that God gives us
peace of mind and strong emotional stability. When can He do this? When we keep
Him first. This teaching is just plain simple, but so simple, we can miss it
for years or for a lifetime if we so choose. IF we keep God first, God then
gets more specific as to what we should do next and that is not to worry about
the future, but to think only about one day at a time. This is truly the best
way to live.
Take
therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the
things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. – Matthew 6: 34
God is saying that if you
keep Him first, you don’t have to worry about tomorrow, but focus only on
today. God says there is enough of the adversary’s tricks and traps to avoid
for one day. The best way to live is a day at a time – you’ve heard that
before.
To help make things more
clear, you need to know who you are dealing with every day. We are in a
spiritual contest, although it may appear otherwise. God via His Word will
teach you how your personal adversary operates because our competition is
spiritual.
For we
wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against
powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual
wickedness in [from
on] high places. – Ephesians 6: 12 [‘places’ is in italics and can
be omitted. It was added by the translators.]
We deal with the world
rulers of the darkness of this age. Satan runs this world and he has one-third
of the angels on his side. This makes up the devil spirit kingdom. It’s nothing
to be fearful of if you know and apply God’s Word. One believer standing on God’s
Word can alter and counter anything that the adversary has planned. So remember
the following and you should commit it to memory. It will help you.
Ye are of
God, little children, and have overcome them [all the negatives]:
because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. – I John 4:
4
The Spirit of God in
Christ in you is greater than any devil spirit. God can show you how to counter
all the moves of the adversary. He can give you information that is impossible
to know by the five senses alone. This is referred to as Word of Knowledge and
Word of Wisdom. These are two of nine manifestations (not gifts) of Holy Spirit
and are known as the eyes and ears of the Church. Remember that the only thing
that defeats the enemy is the rightly divided Word of God – BELIEVED AND
APPLIED. Otherwise, the enemy will defeat you in all areas of your life. Oh, he
may come on as an angel of light at first and whisper in your ear ‘ you really don’t need that Word
of God. Listen to me. I’ll give you all the pleasure you could ever want’. And
do you know how he will end his very well-rehearsed lie? ‘If you will just
bow down and worship me’.
That’s just what he
said and tried with Jesus Christ. And what did Jesus Christ do? HE QUOTED THE
DEVIL SCRIPTURE!! The devil tried three (3) times and every time, Jesus Christ
quoted him Scripture. WHY?
Because Jesus
Christ knew that this was the only thing that the enemy could not stand.
Darkness cannot stand light. Satan is after the Word of God. If he can get rid
of peoples’ desire to get to know God, he can then steal, kill, and destroy
with nothing in his way. But he mainly goes about this on an individual basis.
In other words, everyone has a personal adversary. Satan is a parasite. But he
keeps away from believers that know and apply the true God’s Word. The enemy is
running rampant in these last times. How many more people are left like myself?
I see the power of God. It will make you shake. Do you have the integrity to
keep God first? Yes, you may get quite a bit of tribulation at times but God
says you can handle it. You may wonder so often why God isn’t answering your
prayers. It’s because you need to take ACTION on what you are praying about.
You need to get MOVING because that’s when God moves. God moves when you
move.
Remember James 2: 17 and 2: 26. ACT FIRST AND
THEN YOU WILL SEE.
Draw nigh to God, and he will
draw nigh to you. – James 4: 8a
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