Don’t you just love it when you have something drop in your heart that you know is right from God? That happened recently, as a staff we were trying to decide on a theme for our 25th anniversary celebration during the month of May. The words that felt right were these, “Great Things Are Yet To Come.” We know that God has great things for our city, our valley, our state and our nation. We glance back with joy and press forward with anticipation. We have an outstanding line up of speakers each weekend in May with Dean Yates, Greg Fritz, Pastor Rex Baker (on Wednesday the 15th), Pastor Casey Treat, and Pastor Mark Boer our former youth pastor who now leads a great church in Boise. Each message will hit the mark, and every one of the speakers will encourage us in our faith. Greater things are yet to come! Here is your dailyeword.
Monday
Hebrews 4:2 says that the Word profits us when it is mixed with faith. The message Bible says it this way, For we also have had the good news proclaimed to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because they did not share the faith of those who obeyed. The key for us to keep moving forward, expanding, and increasing – is for us to mix faith with the promises. We want to be those who share the faith and obey! God will do for us what we believe Him for!
None of us are batting 1,000 at our faith walk, but that certainly shouldn’t make us discouraged. It should encourage us to believe for more! We can all improve in the area of believing! All God wants is for somebody (you and me) to believe something (His Word)! We all know that we need to base our faith on THE BIBLE. It is important to have a solid foundation, and there is nothing more solid than the Bible! But believing alone isn’t even enough. To make our faith produce, we must believe it in our heart, and then speak it with our mouth! Faith speaks! If it is not speaking, it is not faith! Just like cars drive, planes fly, and shovels dig, faith speaks. It is the corresponding action that goes along with faith.
Just like the car needs a key to start, to activate our faith, we need to get our engine going and shift into gear to move ahead in God. In other words, get our rear in gear! Let’s get out of park, out of reverse and neutral, and start moving toward God’s will for our lives. It isn’t that we need an army tank to move ahead, we just need to get moving in our vehicle. (In other words, we don’t need more or bigger, more impressive faith. We just need to use the faith we have!) Just put your car in drive! We need to be disciplined and be reminded to keep moving forward by putting our words in line with our faith, and believe God for great things!!! Let’s not go backward, or roll backward. Stay out of neutral and never sit around wasting gas on idle – especially at these gas prices! God is into progress….let’s get moving….!
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