How faith works (28/6/2023)
Romans 10:9-10 "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. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved."
Here Paul explains how faith towards salvation in Christ is developed and works. It begins with what one hears and accepts in their heart. Once the heart (spirit part of man) believes, the mouth speaks out to confirm it. Salvation then is recieved. This process of faith goes for anything else one believes.
Faith then begins from the spirit realm. Once the heart and mouth agree, they tune the soul and body to think and act. What you believe, you speak about and act on it. All your body systems are tuned to adjust and respond accordingly. Similarly, the spiritual world accordingly responds to your faith. It is man’s faith that gives permission for the spirit world (of God or Satan) to act and manifest physically on earth. This explains the importance of priesthood which connects the spiritual to the physical.
This is the reason we need to watch what we hear and what goes on around us. They contribute to our faith or cause doubt. Also watch what we say. The devil instils fear, which causes people to confess negatively inline with their fears and that gives room to the devil to effect what people have confessed. Confessions inline with God’s word allows God to act according to His declared word. Faith is the key factor between defeat or victory in the spirit.
Hebrews 13:5 "Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.” So we say with confidence, “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?”
Psalm 91:2 "I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”
Shalom children of God