MISSIONS: Faith connects us to God. It pleases God. It calls into being things that were not. Faith is the basis in which the Kingdom of God operates. Without faith we cannot receive anything from God. God honors faith the most. Whatever we do for God, we must do it in faith, fully trusting the Lord. We are saved by grace through faith. We pray His will in faith. We are made righteous by faith. God credits our faith as righteousness. We live by faith not by sight. There is a kind of faith that God responds to. It is faith that works through love. Faith that expresses itself in love.
This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their minds & write them on their hearts. I will be their God, & they will be My people. No longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying: Know the Lord, because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest. (Hebrews 8:10-11). If our hearts are not changed, following God's rules will be unpleasant & difficult. We will rebel against being told how to live the Christian way. The Holy Spirit, however, gives us new desires, helping us wanting to obey God. With new hearts, hearts of flesh & not hearts of stone, we will find that serving God is our greatest joy. Under God's new covenant, God's law is inside us & not outside, ie, on a tablet of stone. No, it's written in our hearts. It is no longer an external set of rules & principles. The Holy Spirit reminds us of Christ's words, activates our ...
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