The righteousness of God is revealed to us from faith to faith

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...

If we never had a problem, would we turn to God?

 

Our faith in God is strengthened from "faith to faith", from problem to problem, for as we turn to God for help and as HE reveals Himself from problem to problem, we put our faith in "that word" which we believe God has said to us.

 

Romans 1:15-17  So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also.

16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

(Gospel means: God's story)

17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

 

When we have a problem, we learn to turn to God for help.  God will, by HIS Holy Spirit, help us, often with a scripture but sometimes with a concept.  And when we believe that which God has spoken to us and act upon that basis, we walk in faith in that which God has spoken, showing we believe we have heard from God.

 

God told Noah that HE was going to destroy this world because of the violence of man.  Then God told Noah to build an ark for himself and his family.  As Noah built that ark, which was specified by God by HIS Word, Noah witnessed of God, as the people saw what he was doing.

 

James 2:20-26 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?

22 Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?

23 And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.

24 Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.

25 Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?

26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

 

Faith comes when we hear from God by HIS Holy Spirit.  Our faith is based then upon that word that God speaks to us on the specific issue of this present life.

 

The Holy Spirit of God, who lives in us, brings the word that is from God to our mind in the form of a thought.  By "this word" we have the information we need to make godly decisions in the matter at hand and to go in the will of God in faith with assurance.

 

I Cor. 6:19  What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

 

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