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Risk and Faith are first cousins. Love one and you’ll love the other!
True faith is doing something that might not seem to be immediately prosperous to yourself, but because of obedience to God’s word (and God’s leading as well – see Romans 8:14 ) we do it anyway, believing that God will meet you and reward you for it… eventually.
Some of these faith actions would include:
- Having a time of prayer every day. (Matthew 6:9-11)
- Building the cohesiveness of a local church. (Hebrews 10:25)
- Giving of yourself to meet others’ needs. (I Peter 4:10, Eph. 4:11-15)
- Making an effort to reach out to the unsaved. (Matthew 28:18,19)
- Leading with improvement and excellence in life and culture. (Pro. 12:26)
Faith is following God and following the Spirit in obedience to God.
Have we perverted the walk of faith to mean a life of blessing and abundance absent of responsibility? Without risk?
After the prodigal son came home and got the robe and the ring and the shoes and the party – there was work. You can bet he was not assigned a cloud to hover on, a fire place to relax by with a hot cup of java. The next morning the father came and woke him up and said let’s go to work.
Eph. 2:10 – We have been created for good works in Christ Jesus. Not created by good works, but for good works.
Noah spent roughly 120 years building a boat for an occasion that had never previously happened before. It was going to rain!
Moses spent 40 years leading people out of bondage.
Distrust, doubt and fear of God’s resurrection will keep us from our cross of good works. Good works don’t always look really inviting! There were nails on His cross, and there might be some on yours. But resurrection is on the other side of those works.
Will you join me in praying this simple prayer? “Father, I embrace the good works you’ve called me to. I accept the grace to walk them out. I receive your supernatural enablement. Good works will produce fruit in my life. Good works will bring a great reward. I am your risk-taker and your obedient child. Amen.”
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