Aug 15th, 2024

Questions, Answers & Prayers:

What can I do to practice faith or increase my faith?

The only stable place to practice faith is by seeing yourself as a sheep of the Shepherd. A child of God is who you are. All responses either come from faith or fear.

Fear blocks practicing faith & comes to steal, kill & destroy.

Faith leads to life in abundance.

Fear defines self by what you do: “Prove worth by what you do.”

Faith says “Your identity is not what you do: Your identity is who you are. You’re God’s child.

Your security & identity: A sheep following your Shepherd by faith.

Faith finds our great worth in the fact that Jesus made us & shed His blood to make us His child.

Faith in your identity as a child of God will block fear. The devil distracts you into fear when things go bad or get stressful.

Staying in faith is thanking God in, not for, things that go wrong: Trusting God to work even the bad things for a pattern of good.

Pray to see clearly how you are giving place to fear in your heart.

Ask the Spirit to help you to resist fear the next time it tempts you.

Fear frets about bad outcomes or obsesses about good outcomes.

Faith in your identity as a child of God is a peaceful heart at rest. Faith stays with God & always chooses what’s pleasing to God.

A heart at rest is a heart of faith.

Faith is a place refusing to strive.

Faith doesn’t come from striving.

Faith comes from complete trust.

Faith knows who you are is the work Jesus did on your behalf.

God’s child by faith; not by doing.

“Jesus, hold me fast in faith so I’ll follow You to abundant life. Enable me to resist fear that comes to steal, kill & destroy

(Adapted John 10:10) Amen.”

Partial Fast: Sept 2-9 50-80% normal eating: 2-9, each month Thru 2024 U.S. Elections & Feast of Tabernacles & Thru July 2025. If God’s people cry out for mercy & serve God with prayer & fasting through July 2025 then God’s mercy will triumph over judgment & America will stand with Israel.