{"id":1528,"date":"2021-08-05T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gracelifetriad.com\/2021\/08\/05\/2021-08-05-faith-in-action\/"},"modified":"2021-08-05T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T16:00:00","slug":"2021-08-05-faith-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gracelifetriad.com\/2021\/08\/05\/2021-08-05-faith-in-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Faith In Action"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I\u2019m a big believer in the power of confession!\u00a0 The words we say have power to bring the will of God to pass in our lives so it important for us to say about ourselves what our Heavenly Father is saying about us.\u00a0 With that said, sometimes if we aren\u2019t careful we can be all talk and no substance.\u00a0 What do I mean?<\/p>\n

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Have you ever heard a person say, \u201cWe need to live by faith and not fear and take authority over the works of the enemy\u201d only to see them run like a fraidy cat at the first sign of trouble.  Come to think of it, I may have done that once or twice myself – lol. I\u2019m not writing this to criticize any of us whose lives don\u2019t always match our words as we are all a work in progress, but I do want to encourage each of us to press into God and walk in all the power that is available to us.  Look at this passage of scripture in Luke 20<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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 1 <\/em><\/strong>Now it happened on one of those days, as He taught the people in the temple and preached the gospel, that the chief priests and the scribes, together with the elders, confronted Him <\/em>2 <\/em><\/strong>and spoke to Him, saying, \u201cTell us, by what authority are You doing these things? Or who is he who gave You this authority?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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The fact the Pharisees asked Jesus, \u201cby what authority do you do these things\u201d means they realized Jesus had authority.\u00a0 Think about it, the Pharisees weren\u2019t debating whether His works were real or not.\u00a0 They couldn\u2019t deny the miracles because they were real.\u00a0 These miraculous works revealed His authority, which caused the Pharisees to\u00a0want to know where His authority came from. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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One of the ways to know our lifestyle matches our confession is when others see the power of God working in our lives.  A great question we should all ask ourselves is when is the last time someone saw us operate in such authority that they wanted to know where our authority came from?  This is what the Pharisees wanted to know of Jesus. <\/p>\n

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What if our neighbors or co-workers saw us live such lives of power and excellence that they wanted to know where our ability came from?\u00a0 How many people would we be able to lead to the Lord simply by living a life of power and excellence that reveals the authority of Jesus in our lives? \u00a0<\/p>\n

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If people aren\u2019t asking us where our power and authority came from, it\u2019s a sign we probably aren\u2019t walking in much spiritual authority. I don\u2019t say that to condemn. I say that as an invitation to pursue Jesus so we can come up to a new level in Him!  One of His greatest desires for all of us is for people to see His life when they look at our life.  This leads to an important question.  How do we do that?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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We walk in authority by endeavoring to act on the things the word of God says about us.\u00a0 Unfortunately, many hear the word and confess the word but don\u2019t act on it.\u00a0 This leaves them full of knowledge, which leads to spiritual pride and not spiritual growth.\u00a0 James 1:22 <\/em><\/strong>says when we hear the word and don\u2019t act we deceive ourselves.\u00a0 We must act on the word of God to walk in authority. Check out this message<\/a> to learn more about stepping out in faith.<\/p>\n

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When we begin to act on the word of the Lord, there will be failures.  Don\u2019t get discouraged.  It\u2019s part of the process.  Our initial failure should invite us into a deeper encounter with Jesus where learn His word at a deeper level and cry out for His spirit to transform us so we actually do what the Bible says we can do.  This pressing in season is vital.  It\u2019s a place of brokenness and authenticity before the Lord where we begin to long for what He longs for. It also creates the reality in us that we can\u2019t do the works of God apart from dependency on Him.  <\/p>\n

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In my own life I usually don\u2019t see immediate change when I begin to act on the word of God in a particular area.\u00a0 I usually fail a lot at first and then have to bring those failures to Jesus.\u00a0 Even after I bring my failures to Him, I usually continue to fail in that area for a while.\u00a0 As I keep coming to Jesus, He stirs my hunger and begins to show me others scriptures or ways of His I need to understand in order to walk in the fullness of what His word has declared over me in the area I’m trying to see breakthrough.<\/p>\n

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This was what happened for me when it came to praying for the sick.\u00a0 I have had a theology of healing for as long as I can remember, however, for most of my life people rarely got better when I prayed for them.\u00a0 If anyone would have been observing, they wouldn\u2019t have seen any of Jesus\u2019s authority in my life.\u00a0 I looked full of knowledge, but was powerless.\u00a0 Today, however, people get healed regularly when I pray for them.\u00a0 What has brought the change?\u00a0 A prolonged pursuit of and series of encounters with Jesus where He took what I intellectually knew and taught me how to apply it!\u00a0 It\u2019s not a magic formula.\u00a0 It is spending time with Him.<\/p>\n

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I still don\u2019t see everyone I pray for get healed, but I probably see 10 times as many people healed as I used to – Praise God for Growth!  By the way, the Lord is still inviting me into deeper encounters so I see more healings and miracles in my life. <\/strong> These miracles, signs, and wonders reveal the authority of God in my life.  In other words, I don\u2019t have to declare it about myself, other people actually see it working.  That\u2019s the point of this article!  <\/strong> <\/p>\n

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I\u2019m not writing any of this to brag about me because I\u2019m not very impressed with me.  I am thoroughly impressed with Jesus, however, and want more of what He has for me.  I want that for you too, which is why I wrote this article.  Jesus wants others to see His power and authority working in your life.  He wants you to walk in so many miracles and supernatural breakthroughs that people ask where your authority came from.  When they do, it will give you an awesome opportunity to tell them about Jesus!<\/p>\n

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Jesus walked in such power it caused the Pharisees to ask Him where His authority came from. Do people ask you that question. If not, God is inviting you into a deeper encounter with His grace so you can live a life of excellence and power that reveals the authority of Jesus! Learn how that’s possible in this article. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,28],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gracelifetriad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gracelifetriad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gracelifetriad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gracelifetriad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gracelifetriad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gracelifetriad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gracelifetriad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gracelifetriad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gracelifetriad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gracelifetriad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}