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Breaking into the Bank of Faith...
Why do we equate faith with money?
I am not speaking about the realm of wealth just way we view faith. When we have money in the Bank we feel secure and satisfied. We know that if an emergency arises we can just use the funds we have stored up in the Bank to pay for what is needed and the emergency becomes a non-event and we sleep and rest peacefully. But what happens when the funds are to low to cover the emergency? What happens when the emergency completely drains our funds? What happens to us when funds run out and the bill is due and we don't have enough in the bank to cover the amount? We go into panic mode and we cry, scream and shout in anger because our life and our securitys rest on the Bank. Some become so desperate they know there is a safe in the Bank with money in it. In desperation they decided to break into the Bank thinking that if they can just get into the safe and take the money their needs would be met and life would return back to normal and security and peace would come to them again. We know that it doesn't work that way.
This is why WE view Faith like money in the Bank.
It seems at times we think the more faith we have, the more secure we'll become and if we can just deposit faith in the Bank of Faith now and again we can relax and rest peacefully and there maybe some truth to this thinking. But when the emergency or trial or test comes and we become panicked. The Doctor says it's cancer, the spouse tells the partner I'm leaving you, the Pink slip on your desk announces your dismissal, so many things can happen that shake us to our core and it seems that after awhile we use up our faith that we had stored and we get so discouraged we feel our Faith account is empty and there is no faith left for us to withdraw. We become desperate so we turn from faith to doubt and that really breaks our spirits and we become lost and we beat ourselves up because of our lack of faith that somehow we didn't have enough. All because we view faith like we view money and once the money is gone it's over, likewise, then once our storehouse of faith is gone it's over and the battle for us is lost because we give up believing our Spirit is bankrupt. Then the guilt sets in and our faults and our past becomes display case that we view daily and instead of growing in Faith we give up.
Do we misunderstand Faith sometimes?
In the book of Luke Jesus said to his disciples, "Hard trials and temptations are bound to come, but too bad for whoever brings them on! Better to wear a millstone necklace and take a swim in the deep blue sea than give even one of these dear little ones a hard time! "Be alert. If you see your friend going wrong, correct him. If he responds, forgive him. Even if it's personal against you and repeated seven times through the day, and seven times he says, 'I'm sorry, I won't do it again,' forgive him." The apostles came up and said to the Master, "Give us more faith."
They were thinking that when these hard trials and temptations come they would want to have enough Faith in the Bank to take them on and if they didn't have enough they would probably succumb and fail..
But the Master said, "You don't need more faith. There is no 'more' or 'less' in faith. If you have a bare kernel of faith, say the size of a mustard seed, you could say to this sycamore tree, 'Go jump in the lake,' and it would do it.
Faith is not measured by how much or little you have it is measured by how you will trust God to believe during these times of trials and troubles. It will be there when you reach out to pray for someone who has a need. It will be there when you believe God for healing either for yourself or others. There is no Bank of Faith to break into because the amount of Faith you have will be dependant on you because God has given a measure of Faith to every man. It's up to us as to how we will use it.
Money and Faith are not equals because you don't have to have a great amount of Faith for God to move on your behalf. God will honor a mustard seed faith. There is no measurement in Faith just that you will put your trust in God. A little Faith in God can go a long ways in Life and what we go thru. Faith in God can bring healing to yourself and others if you will just use what He has given you. Stop beating yourself up and Trust Him today and He will make a way for you.
BE ENCOURAGED TODAY and HAVE FAITH IN GOD...
Randy
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