Get Your Faith Straight - Part 2

Get Your Faith Straight - Part 2

 Have you ever been around a person who says they have faith, but you could never tell it by what they choose to do?  I have met people who say they are a Christians, but would never know it by how they live.  I know we are not perfect and we all have struggles.. but ultimately,  people who love God will choose to do the things God loves.  A person of faith will walk by faith and his faith will bring birth to good works.  True faith will stand in agreement with the bible and is evidence of a true relationship to Christ.

To say you are a Christian but not follow the bible, is like handing an empty cup to a thirsty person.  Nothing you could ever offer them would satisfy because they need water and you don't have it.

Getting your faith straight would require making sure you are really saved.  I have heard leaders say they were Christians,  but they help the devil openly  in the things for which they stand.  They stand for the very things that have brought God's  judgment upon other nations in the past. The things God speaks against in His Word.    I have heard people of other faiths say they were Christians, but teach doctrine that does not even exist in scripture and  is contrary to scripture.  In both the cases I mentioned,  they would say they are people of faith.  Yes maybe they have faith, it may even be great faith, but having faith in the wrong things will not be blessed by God.

To think you are saved is not good enough, you can know you are saved.  I was reminded by God, just last night of something I heard a very long time ago. It slipped out of my lips, even though I hadn't thought about it in years.  It was a saying I once heard a preacher say," It's not a hope so salvation, It's a know so salvation.

When you know your saved it will show and if you know it, you will show it, by how you live and what you do.  When you love God , there will be evidence in your life because when Jesus lives in your heart

it will shine forth in a dark world.  Just like a lighthouse on a hill showing people the way.

1John 5:13

These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

Father God, 

Help true believers to love you by our behavior and forgive us if we have not loved you, as we should, in times past.  Open the eyes of those who have professed Christianity but never possessed true faith in Christ.  Help others to understand that they may KNOW that they can belong to you as  new born children of God.  Show them they can have assurance of heaven through Christ and his finished work at Calvary.

In Christ Jesus I Pray This, Amen 

Susan Y Nikitenko

July 30th, 2014

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Devotional - Faith

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Get Your Faith Straight - Devotional - Part 1 - July 30th, 2014

Get Your Faith Straight -  Part 1

Most days I go outside to water my plants, weed and straighten up things.  I happen to a have a stepping stone that stands upon its edge for decoration.  It’s not all that pretty, but it’s what it says that makes it beautiful.  It’s  the word faith.  Faith is very important and something we need to encourage each other and to keep hold of, during our most trying times in life.  It stands as a reminder to everyone looking--- to not lose faith.  Faith is so important in fact, that the bible says,” without  faith it’s impossible to please God.”  Not only is faith important to have answered prayers, but is one of the main ingredients for salvation in Christ.

I don’t know how many times I have gone outside and have found that stepping stone crooked.  The word faith is leaning in a wrong direction when it needs to be straight.  So I’m always paying attention to it, to make sure it stays straight. 

In life, when something bad happens, our faith is tried and our faith can get bent out of shape.  It's hard to understand some of what God is doing in our lives all the time, especially when it seems things are not going our way. 

I was thinking about this and I asked myself the question, "When Is Our Faith Considered Crooked?"

I think the first way our faith would be considered crooked is if we are putting our faith in the wrong things.  Putting your faith in the wrong thing can make the difference between life or death.  It would be the equivalent to a police officer trusting in his water gun verses trusting in his real gun in a dangerous situation. 

In the Christian walk, what you trust in is so important that it makes a difference between life and death.  The bible plainly teaches, we are not saved by works, but that works are to be an important part of a Christians walk because they love God.  We are not to trust in works for salvation, but live out good works  with the motive of pleasing God.   If we  have faith in our works for salvation, we are trusting in what we do to save us.  When we have faith in what Jesus did, we are trusting in what Jesus did for our salvation. 

If we are trusting in how good we are, it would be considered pride in the eyes of God.

If we are trusting in what He did, we know we could never live good enough.  We would realize He so lovingly paid our debt.   We would humble ourselves knowing , he gave us something we do not deserve.

Get your faith straight today by trusting in what Christ did and not what you have done to get yourself to heaven when you die.  Yes, live your best and give your best.  Not because you have to, but because you want to.  Want to, because God is pleased with and uses our good works for his glory.

Dear Father God,

Thank- You so much for paying for our sin debt upon Calvary's tree.  We do not deserve the love you have shown to us.  Thank- you for your mercy towards poor lost sinners,  that would have had no hope without you.  Help us be consistant in good works, that you may be glorified in our life and walk.

In Christ Jesus Name I Pray - Amen

Ephesians 2:8-10

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

Susan Y Nikitenko

July 30th, 2014

Devotional - Read:  Ephesians 8

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