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Get Rid Of Fear
Luke 8:50, 'But when Jesus heard it, he answered him saying, Fear not: believe only, and she shall be made whole.'
MATTHEW 9:23-31; MARK 5:35-43; LUKE 8:49-56
Jesus told Jairus to 'believe only,' implying that faith and fear can operate in us at the same time. This is also the reason James tells us not to be double-minded, or to waiver (Jas. 1:5-8). Fear will negate faith. We can have both thoughts of faith and thoughts of unbelief at the same time.
Fear and faith are opposing forces. Fear is actually faith in reverse. Fear is believing something or someone other than God. Therefore, fear makes us subject to Satan and his death just as faith makes us recipients of all that God has to offer. This is the reason...
GOD'S COMMANDMENTS
ARE YOU TAKING GOD AT HIS WORD?
Making Faith Work
Luke 8:46, 'And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me: for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me.'
LUKE 8:43-48
Is it possible that Jesus, who was God manifest in the flesh, and therefore all-knowing, did not actually know who touched Him? Yes! Although Jesus' spiritual man was divine, He took upon Himself a physical body with its limitations. Jesus drew on His divine ability through the gifts of the Holy Ghost, and so can we (Jn. 14:12; 1 Cor. 12:7). Before His resurrection, He operated as a man (sinless) by receiving from His Father through faith. Luke 8:47 says that the woman 'saw that she was not hid.' It is evident that Jesus received a word of knowledge from the Holy Spirit and had singled out this woman....
REPETITIOUS PRAYER
BY LYNETTE HUGHES
Catholics often are offended when confronted with praying repetitious prayers like the Rosary contrary to What Jesus said in Matthew 6:7. There are times in our life where we will want to keep asking God for something; but, that is certainly not the same as repeating the same repetitious, religious words over and over.
Jesus gave his disciples the Lord's Prayer as an example. He...
The Law Of Faith
Luke 8:45, 'And Jesus said, 'Who touched me?' When all denied, Peter and they that were with him said, 'Master, the multitude throng thee, and press thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?''
MATTHEW 9:18-20; MARK 5:21-34; LUKE 8:40-48
The multitudes were thronging Jesus. That is, they were compressing, and crowding in on all sides, so it seems strange that He would ask, 'Who touched me?' Many people were physically touching Jesus, but this woman touched His power by faith. Many people in the crowd probably needed healing, but this person is the only one mentioned who received. The difference was the touch of faith.
If it was simply Jesus' willingness to heal that determined whether or not the healing took...
Love And Trust
Matthew 9:18, 'While he spake these things unto them, behold, there came a certain ruler, and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is even now dead: but come and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live.'
MATTHEW 9:18-19
Jesus could have healed this girl by His spoken word, but He did as He was requested to do. This illustrates how the Lord ministers to us according to our faith. Jesus ministered to him at the level where his faith was and didn't rebuke his little faith (Jas. 1:5).
There is a human faith which is limited to believing only what we can perceive through our five senses. But the supernatural, God kind of faith goes beyond what we can see, taste, hear, smell, and feel. God's kind of faith calls...
FAITH IS SOMETHING WE MUST USE
I LOVE READING HEBREWS 11. IT IS CALLED THE FAITH CHAPTER FOR A REASON. I HAVE COPIED 1-11 BELOW SO YOU WOULDN'T HAVE TO LOOK UP THE VERSES.
Hebrews 11
1Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.