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Walk by Faith Read

1 Corinthians 2:9–12.
In this passage, Paul quotes from the prophet Isaiah. His intention is to show that the relationship we have with God through Christ is not something that can be appreciated with the natural senses. Not the eye, not the ear, nor even the heart can perceive the things which God has prepared for us.
These are simple lessons most believers learn early in their walk with Christ. However, though we may have learned the lessons long ago, today’s dynamic faith life requires a review of those basic faith principles. Why? Because every promise we seek to apprehend will involve the test of our faith, and what Paul calls “the good
fight of faith” (1 Timothy 6:12). Our faith will become strong only as we learn to trust His Word, walking beyond emotions—living and responding to circumstances by what we know to be true because of His Word, not by what we feel, see, or think on a natural plane. Amen

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Continue in Faith

Read Romans 10:6–10
In this passage is found the most foundational lesson in the importance and power of faith’s confession. The principle is established at the very beginning of our life in Christ. Just as salvation (God’s righteous working in our behalf) is appropriated by heart belief and spoken confession, so His continuing work in our lives is advanced by the same means. Our oral confession of faith declares, confirms, and seals belief in our hearts.
Thus the parallel between “saving” faith and “power” faith is seen in its dependence upon the Word of the gospel.
Read 2 Corinthians 4:13–14

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Experience the Miraculous

If we belong to the Lord, we have all experienced the miraculous in our lives— saving faith is miraculous . Our salvation isn’t a miracle because we were especially evil before accepting Christ. We may or may not have been evil in the sense of being dedicated to the reprobate, depraved, or the terrible. But still, we were lost—without hope (Ephesians 2:12). Nothing we could do by any demonstration of human thought, strength, wisdom, or goodness in actions could rescue us.
Quite literally, every area of your life is presently intended to experience the initiating, drawing, winning, persuading work of God through His Word and His Spirit. Miraculously, He is provoking us toward faith for ourselves, our marriage, our children, our business—every area of life. Amen
Read Ephesians 2:8–9

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Faith Is In Christ Romans

10:8–9 The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart (that is, the word of faith which we preach): that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
Saving faith is faith in God through the person of Jesus Christ. The focus of saving faith is always toward Jesus personally, not toward Jesus as a mere idea. In other words, the moment our study of God’s Word becomes separated from Jesus Himself, it becomes only an academic pursuit without the power of the Spirit teaching us and glorifying Jesus in us through the Word. However true the Scriptures are, and however wonderful their wisdom is, the life of the Scriptures is linked to Christ. We dare not separate the Word from the Person.

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Overcome Temptation

Read 1 Peter 2:11–17.
Peter writes to us as “pilgrims” of faith and encourages us to arm ourselves in our minds for the fight against sin. Though this passage is also connected to persecution, Peter’s admonition deals most directly with the suffering we face essentially because we have chosen to live differently than we did before we came to Christ.
In this passage, Peter addresses the suffering we will face in dealing with our fallen human nature. It comes in two forms: interior and exterior. Times of temptation will come to us just as surely as the Enemy came to our Lord Jesus Christ (Luke 4:1–13). But even when we don’t experience any external stimulus toward sin, we all still have a fallen nature that can taunt us—a “self-life” that is completely capable of assailing us, and at times even sounding just like the tempter! Amen

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Endure and Persevere

Read 2 Timothy 3:10–12

• I endured them! This is not the tone of a victim. Paul is not lamenting. He is being honest with the facts of persecution. He has not surrendered to the feelings of persecution! He drew on God’s grace and prevailed!
• The Lord delivered me from every one of them! Paul’s experience is a model for us. For every believer who encounters persecution themessage is clear—if you suffer persecution for your faith and godly living, Jesus Himself will deliver you! Amen

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Freed from Fear

2 Timothy 1:7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. Far too often, what we perceive as faith is actually motivated by fear. In more instances than we care to admit, we pursue powerful faith because we are afraid—afraid to be sick, afraid to be poor, afraid to be sad, afraid of disease. Fear can be a powerful motivator. But if we want to operate in real, power faith, we must own up to the fact that the Lord isn’t the source of the spirit of fear. Amen

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