18/12/2024
Imagine you decide one day that you want to lose weight and get fit. 💪🏼
🏋️ So you go out and buy a gym membership.
👚 You spend hundreds of dollars on new workout clothes.
🎧 You start listening to weight loss experts on YouTube and podcasts share their wisdom for hours a day.
🤩 You get excited and enthusiastic for all things diet and exercise.
👏🏼 You even shout a few “amen!”s when hearing other people’s success stories.
You have all the knowledge and information you will ever need on how to lose weight and get fit! 🙌🏼
BUT unless you actually go and DO the things you have been hearing and learning - unless you put CORRESPONDING ACTION to what you have heard, you will see zero results. ❌
Likewise, many of us desire to get healed, increase financially, have peace in our relationships, walk in Divine protection, and enjoy all the blessings that God has given us by His grace. 🙏🏼
🎧 We spend hours a day listening to faith teachings and Word studies.
📖 We diligently read the Bible through three times every year.
📝 We have handwritten scriptures plastered to our fridge, mirrors, and walls.
👏🏼 We even shout “amen” every time we hear a testimony of healing or deliverance.
We have all of the wisdom, knowledge and revelation and we totally believe that God wants us blessed, healed, prosperous, and protected! 🙌🏼
BUT James 1:22 warns us that unless we are DOERS of the Word and not just hearers, we are deceiving (deluding, fooling, kidding) ourselves. 🫠
James 2:17 also tells us that unless faith has CORRESPONDING ACTION, it is DEAD (inoperative, unable to produce any results).💀
We have to be DOERS of the Word we have heard and put corresponding action to our faith if we want to see any results. 🏃♀️
And 2 Corinthians 4:13 tells us what the corresponding action to faith is and HOW to do the Word we have heard:
“…we BELIEVE, therefore we SPEAK.”🗣️
In other words, if we BELIEVE the Word, we must SPEAK the Word. 📖=🗣️
🗣️ If we BELIEVE “by His stripes we are healed,” we must SPEAK, “by His stripes I am healed!” (1 Pet 2:24)
🗣️ If we BELIEVE “No weapon formed against you shall prosper,” we must SPEAK, “No weapon formed against me shall prosper!”(Is 54:17)
🗣️ If we BELIEVE “My God shall supply all your needs,” we must SAY, “My God supplies all my needs!” (Phil 4:19)
And we SPEAK the Word we believe no matter what it looks like, what the circumstances are telling us, or how things appear in the natural. 👂🏼👀
Our ACTION (speaking) has to correspond to our faith in God’s Word in spite of all evidence to the contrary.
We do the Word by speaking the Word, confessing the Word, declaring the Word and standing firmly on the Word and ONLY the Word. 📖🗣️
And God promises that the doers of the Word WILL be blessed (get results!) in all that they do! (Js 1:25)🥰
That’s Good News! 🥳
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For further teaching on this subject, listen to “How To Be A Doer Of The Word” on the Faith Talks with Emily Preston podcast, available on all podcast streaming platforms, or click the link to Part 1 below:
https://open.spotify.com/show/1Sirohy9wjK0ArGb9C739F
For a FREE copy of Confessions for Life: God’s Promises for You - a booklet of scriptural declarations that cover all the main areas of life, go to www.faithtalks.com.au or email [email protected]
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