Faith – Greek 4102 – Pistis – Persuasion, credence, moral conviction, reliance upon God, Consistency in your Faith Profession/confession, assurance, belief, trust,
Mark 11:12-14
Mark 11:20-26 Read in BBE “Have God’s Faith” Have the Faith of God or the God Kind of Faith”
Luke 17:5- 6 – Increase our Faith
Math 14:22 – Jesus and Peter walk on the Water
Mark 4:35-40 – Jesus sleeps on the Boat
- Two Kinds of Demonstrated Faith
- Faith/Trust in God and what He says
- Faith/Trust in what YOU say that lines up with what God says (The Command of Faith)
“Having Faith in God” VS “Having the Faith of God or the God kind of Faith” or in other words “Using Faith or Trust the way God uses it” (the Command of Faith)
- The key is to study how God and Jesus demonstrated Faith
– Notice Jesus wasn’t speaking ABOUT the Fig Tree, he spoke TO the Fig Tree! He spoke what His desired end result was. He didn’t wait until the circumstances or outward situation changed and agreed with His words before He said anything. He boldly spoke what the end result would be BEFORE there was any sign. He knew the situation would line up with His words.
How does God’s Faith Work?
Gen 1:3 God said, it was so, and He saw!
Rom 4:17 Even God which Calls those things which be not as though the were
John 5:19 – When Jesus spoke to the Fig Tree, He was doing what He had seen His Father do and saying what He had heard His Father say. He was speaking God’s word and trusting it to be fulfilled just as He wanted it to happen.
- Speak to the Root VS Outward
He also spoke to the Fig Tree and it dried up from its roots! He didn’t call fire down to burn up or ice to freeze the Fig Tree from the outside, but he spoke to the Fig Tree’s roots. In Mark’s account it took 24 hours for what had begun instantly from the root to be seen on the outward of the Fig Tree. So likewise in our situation, whatever we have spoken to from the root, we got to believe the the root of the situation is being change and that part can not be seen but eventually because the situation is being change instantly from the root, it will effect and change the situation on the outward which can be seen and may take time.
- We have this same authority
Psl 107:2
2 Cor 4:13
Next Sunday Study
Where does Doubt come from? Guilt, not measuring up, Sin, how we see ourselves, self-confidence, identity in Christ?
Doubt – is to call into question the truth
Fear
Mistakes/Sins – Past, Present, and Future (Sin makes you a coward, brings feeling of guilt and inferiority
Other People
Logic
Self Perception
Others perception
Past Experiences
Not being practiced in walking by faith and what you can not see
We must see and understand Faith as a Servant
Matt 7:29
Matthew 8:5
Luke 17:5
Mark 9:19
Is there anything too hard for the Lord?
Jer 32:17,27
Zech 8:6
Gen 18:14
Be not weak in Faith but Strong in Faith and consider not the problem but Consider and dwell on the promise, speaking the promise and calling it in!!
Rom 4:16-21
With God nothing is impossible
Luke 1:37
Math 19:26
If there is any Doubt, God says He will give us all things
1 Tim 6:17
Rom 8:32
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