God Thinking LXV - Alive Faith 4

"For those who decide to live by faith - It all takes shape and it all has meaning - but for those who do not decide to live by faith - All that has been done - everywhere they have been - all of their experiences become their reward.

Is your faith dead faith or alive faith?

Is Jesus dead or alive?  (Think about this, because if you are  not fully convinced in your heart that Jesus is Alive, you are currently wandering aimlessly to an undefined target)

First let me expose what dead faith is.

Dead faith is when you say one thing and do another.  You say you are going to do this or that, but you don’t follow through.  You don’t really have faith to do it, you just say you do so you will fit in or so that others will think you did do what you did not do, because dead faith seeks recognition - not righteousness.

  

Dead faith is when you let those at Church think you are altogether the professional business man and Christian extraordinaire, while you are stilting people, trying to make a buck without regard for integrity or truth or full disclosure of your product or service.

Dead faith follows others with dead faith, each on their own self serving path of indiscretions.

Dead faith talks allot about what it is going to do in the name of good works, but follows through with little, because dead faith has no power and carries no reward, but it is easy - just say you are going to do it and in due time enough people will think you did do it, so you can take credit for the work of another.

Dead faith prays, wavering and changing with every wind, convinced that prayer is just a formality or doesn't pray at all.

Dead faith is the faith of the double-minded.  There is no efficacy with a double-minded man because there is no agreement between God and man.  There is only the theatrics of faith, but no connection between ourselves and the Spirit of God.

James says, in James 1:5-8

5.  If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

 6.  But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that

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wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

 7.  For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.

 8.  A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

Dead faith doesn’t receive answers to prayer, because dead faith doesn’t trust in a living Savior."

Excerpt from God Thinking LXV - Alive Faith by Keith C. Powell Copyright                                                       2014