1. Faith -Works = Dead
2. Faith+Works= Results
3. Pray like it depends on God+ Work like it depends on you
4. Walk by Faith+Work by Formula
It takes F.A.I.T.H (For All I Take Him) to please God and guts to believe Him. Against ALL hope, Abraham believed God and it was accounted him righteous! God calls us righteous when we simply believe Him! It's funny that we believe liars and struggle when believing someone who cannot lie! Due to His character and nature, God will not and cannot lie!
It takes works, effort to obtain the necessary result of what you are believing God for. If we believe, we put the corresponding actions to confirm our beliefs. We must continue until we yield the necessary results or the manifestation of what we are believing. Our responsibility is to believe and work. We must give God something to work with. If we do our math, work is always added with faith. Let us do all we can to please God: believe Him and have faith!
Comments
When I read this, I am reminded that this sounds like a definition of a relationship. The last paragraph starts with "it takes work." So many people do not understand that one has to form a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. So many fall away from that committment they made that reflects Romans 10:9- If you declare with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord." and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved." In a secular sense, I recall a song with a lyric that goes like this. "The very thing you used to get her must be the same thing to keep her." The same committment a person makes when they accept Jesus Christ is the same thing we must do daily (relationship) to continue that walk with Him.