FAITH: Comes by Hearing the Word of God
Romans 6:22: But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life.
FAITH: Comes by Studying the Word of God
Our past slavery brought only shame and death. But our enslavement to God brings not only freedom from sin but sanctification and eternal life—the practical experience of growing to be more like the Master and the experience of knowing we have eternal life now. 1
FAITH: Comes by Obeying the Word of God
For this is the will of God, that by doing good you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men—as free, yet not using liberty as a cloak for vice, but as bondservants of God. 1 Peter 2:15–16
Thank you Jesus for the grace to do the things that please You and to resist the things that offend You. Please purify my heart and my motives. May I use my liberty to obey You and Your Word, and to be a blessing to others. May I pursue Your will wholeheartedly. May Your life in me, be all the testimony I need for the world to see.
FAITH: Comes by Experiencing the Transforming Work of God
An open door is the results of an open heart to bear fruit for the glory of our King.
FAITH: Comes by Praying with the Word of God
And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. John 4:36
Dear Father, teach me to sow to the Spirit and to be available to reap where others have sown. My heart rejoices in Your joy today… in Jesus Name. Amen.
1. Hughes, R. K. (1991). Romans: righteousness from heaven (p. 134). Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books.
