Faith is one of my favorite subjects and one of the most wonderful, and simple.
Words, often instructions, which are given to us by God, are usually brought directly to our minds by HIS Holy Spirit.
The first time this happened to me was in approximately 1975. I owned a small business in Dallas, Texas. A woman filed a lawsuit against me. I heard an instruction which I believed to be from God. These words were brought to my mind by what I believed to be God, by HIS Holy Spirit: "Don't testify."
As I obeyed this instruction, many unexpected things happened!
(I share this story on this Podcast.)
Our examples are Noah and Abraham. And with both, it is the same, God speaks and they obeyed!
Until God speaks, we can't have faith in God.
For faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God! Romans 10:17
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Concerning Noah:
Hebrews 11:7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
Noah condemned the world, because Noah believed God and the world did not believe God.
And because Noah believed God, Noah built an ark. Noah heard what to do when God spoke to him and Noah did that thing.
Genesis 6
6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved HIM at HIS heart.
7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth ME that I have made them.
8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted HIS way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before ME; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood;
God told Noah how to build the ark and exactly what to do, and Noah obeyed what God said to him.
And that is faith in God. We hear when God speaks and we obey God because we believe what God has said.
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Concerning Abraham:
James 2
21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
22 Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?
23 And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.
24 Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.
26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
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