By Grace Through Faith

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God - Ephesians 2:8

"Why are you so fearful? Where is your faith (your trust, your confidence in Me - in My veracity and My integrity) ?" Jesus asked his disciples when they awakend Him in the midst of the storm in the lake of Galilee (Luke 8:25). And that is exactly how most of us behave when the storm winds and the raging waves surround us. We panic, runhere and there, call up the Pastor and every prayer warrior we konw, worry unceasingly about ourselves, instead of exercising our faith.

If you think to yourself that it's alright with you to be just an ordinary Christian attending church every Sunday and going about your way, then you are wrong. The Lord wants you to exercise your faith, to be an extraordinary person and live at a higher spiritual level each day. To every man is given a measure of faith and the Lord desires of you to daily increase your faith.

The Lord is looking for hearts who will step out in faith, believe Him and operate in His power. Sometimes people have so much faith in their prayerful Pastor, but make no effort to grow in their spiritual lives. Today the Lord is calling you to step out from your ordinary way of living, into the extraordinary, from the natural to the supernatural, from living by sight to living by faith.

The ten spies who went by sight and 'saw' the land, said. "we are not able", "they are stronger than we are". "all the people we saw in it are men of great stature (giants)", and "we were in our own sight as grasshoppers". But Caleb and Joshua who walked in faith said, ?we are well able to conquer it", "the Lord is with us", "they are bread for us", "their defense and the shadow (of protection) is removed from over them, but the Lord is with us", "fear them not". And the result was that only Caleb and Joshua who walked in faith entered the promised land (Numbers 13 & 14). 

"For truly I say to you, if you have faith (that is living) like a grain of mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, move from here to yonder place and it will move, and nothing will be impossible to you." Jesus said in Matthew 17:20. Desire to be mountain movers and have faith like some of those found in Hebrews 1:1. Let your life be known as a man of great faith and a woman of great faith.

Love restrains you from doing evil and reaches out in selfless service to all. 

- Daniel O.C