The apostles
said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!”
He replied, “If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say
to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it will obey.”
Jesus
answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
That if you
confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord” and believe in your heart that God
raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified and it is
with your mouth that you confess and are saved.
Good
Morning, my dear brothers and sisters. I
just hate myself when I don’t get to the computer and get a message out, and
more so when it is Salvation Wednesday.
So today we do Salvation Wednesday and also Thursday, the day we pray
for churches, schools, and families. But
first, this praise report!
Dolores had
the picc line removed yesterday morning, and the last blood test taken on
Tuesday showed ALL INFECTION HAS CLEARED.
All glory and honor to God, for they wanted to (1) remove her third new
knee and put in a “straight leg”, (2) open up and wash out the infection around
the new, two weeks in a row … none of that was done … the third knee has
failed, and she said “no more surgery, not another knee, I will wait on God to
heal it or live with it till I get my new body.”
Now this
prayer request for today, please pray for Ron who has cancer and for whom we
have been praying. Ron has a PET scan
today to get ready for a bone marrow transplant. Hey Ron and Donna, God has a good hold on
you, have faith and go forward, you are loved on this line!
Let me get
to the message:
5 23/24 2012
Sin, Faith, Duty 3 Luke 17:5 – The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our
faith!” 6 He replied, “if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can
say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it will
obey.” (NIV)
John 14:6 –
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through
me. (NIV)
Romans 10:9 –
That if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord” and believe in your heart
that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For it is with your
heart that you believe and are justified and it is with your mouth that you
confess and are saved. (NIV)
Today, brothers
and sisters, I am working on the Faith part of Sin, Faith, and Duty. The scriptures that God led me to today
reflect that. From Luke 17:5 we see
Jesus talking to His apostles and they are stating to Jesus, “Increase our
faith!” So what is that telling me
today, what is God pointing out to me on this scripture? He is telling us, all of us, to increase our
faith. Now all of us have faith in
Christ, or all that are saved, we have that faith. But Jesus wants us to have more faith, and to
me that means we need to trust Him more and more each day. It does not mean to test Him. If you want to plant a tree, don’t go to
Lowes or Home Depot, get in front of a tree, and pray for it to go to your
house. That is not what this example
means as Jesus was telling them about moving a mulberry tree. What He is saying is if we buy the tree or
someone gives us a tree, and we have faith, we can take it home and plant it
and it will grow. Think about that, when
you plant tomatoes, and I must get mine soon, you plant them and you have faith
they will grow. But we need to increase
our faith. I think you know what I am
talking about. So please pray for your
faith to increase.
Now I also
used John 14:6 and Romans 10:9/10 for those scriptures are just two places in
the Bible that tell us how to get into Heaven.
And what is it, it is faith. Now
we who trust God and have Him locked into our hearts and work for Him have
faith, we are going to heaven. If
someone asks you how you know you are going to heaven, you can show them in the
Bible what it takes, or you can just tell them you have faith in Jesus Christ
to take you home. If someone asks you if
“you can prove you are going to heaven,” well, you can only say, our faith in
Jesus tells us we are going. Let’s face
it, folks, our relationship with Jesus, and that is what you need, a
relationship with Him to get to Heaven.
We cannot show folks someone who went and came back. We must “trust and obey”. The word tells us we must confess with our
mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord and we must believe it in our hearts. Also as always on Salvation Wednesday we need
to bring others to the feet of Jesus to be saved … Amen! Let’s pray now for our own faith and renewal …
Today this will be an “I” prayer.
Dear Father
in Heaven, please forgive me of my sins.
I have faith and confess that I know you, Lord, and that Jesus died for
me and was risen from the dead, I believe that in my heart. Lord, today also I pray for Ron and ask that
Your will be done as he goes forward with treatments. Yes, Lord, we want him healed here on
earth. Thanks also for clearing the
infection from Dolores. And, Lord, for
this family day, I pray for a family that has some fighting going on between
brothers and sisters, and Lord, there might be more than one family like
that. Heal their wounds that have come
out of their mouths. In Jesus’ name, I
pray. Amen.
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