Without Faith We are Lost and Cannot Please God—R Fritz
Faith comes from belief in God, where we are rewarded for searching for God with all our heart. In that search, we will find God because God is waiting for us to have that much faith. We have the power to investigate God through the Holy Spirit, as it is on us to ask the questions and walk the walk, because that shows God we have faith. Hebrews 11:6 says, “But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.” The Holy Spirit makes the impossible become possible, where we get a God given plan with the Holy Spirit giving us an end where we walk through to meet the God given end. It is walking and trusting the Holy Spirit, even though we do not see the path or what to do next. It is asking and trusting God to give us wisdom as we walk down the path put before us.
We forget we are not by ourselves; the Holy Spirit never leaves us. It is our responsibility to follow the Holy Spirit and everything we do to show love, even though we want to start to speak or act with contempt towards somebody. Ephesians 4:29-32 says, “Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.” Our actions can grieve the Holy Spirit,t which causes our relationship with the Holy Spirit to change, where we need to ask for forgiveness. Without that forgiveness, we turn to pride, coming in and changing our relationship. God’s rules and commandments require us to admit to wrongs by asking for forgiveness. If we cannot ask for forgiveness, we will not have a relationship with God through the Holy Spirit.
It gets back to our heart, where the Holy Spirit resides. Our feelings get involved in our lives, and that can be what we need to have some control over. Our feelings get us to move with little thought if we let it. Our freewill gets us in trouble because we have not surrendered it. Surrendering our free will does not mean we do not get a say in what happens in our lives. The Holy Spirit gives us a check in our spirit when we are going in the wrong direction or off the path we belong on. The Holy Spirit convicts us, and we decide to ask questions or to keep moving down the path we are on. That conviction we feel should put our conscience then our mind to take notice. When we continue to do nothing when we are convicted, the Holy Spirit accepts us as not wanting to obey or follow God. The question I want to ask is what was our motive when we chose Jesus, and has it changed over time? If we have not moved closer to Jesus and want to spend more time with him and become who we are destined to be, what do we want out of life? It certainly cannot be to go back to where we came from. The next question is, where do we want to go? Hebrews 10:22-24 says Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;) And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: This is where faith comes into our life as it is required to please God.
This week I met somebody at a park. Before I got there, I prayed that God would have a reason for me going there. We were sitting on a park bench when the first person walked by and said “hi.” A few minutes later, this person brought a woman along and started talking about Jesus to the person I came with and me. The couple was talking about faith, and that you could be healed by their faith. The person I came with was talking about reasons not to pray for their past, like things this person has done, and other reasons for bad decisions and medical issues caused by this person. I finally tapped this person on the shoulder and said, “Let them pray for you.” This couple prayed for the person who came with me. We had a conversation with this couple after their prayer, saying they often come to this park to talk to people about Jesus. They talked about their life and what they do as they go to different parks to talk about Jesus. Acts 8:4-6 says, “Therefore they that were scattered abroad went everywhere preaching the word. Then Phillip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them. And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Phillip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did.” We can do exactly as Phillip has done with the same results or better.
The Holy Spirit is the reason we can accomplish miracles, healings, and do the will of God. It requires faith and following the will of God. I am involved in or have seen so many miracles and healings, including myself, because I ask to be involved, where you must trust God with all your heart. Hebrews 11:1 says, “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Faith requires action down a path we know starts with God and ends with God, where we cannot see what is in between (evidence not seen) as we must trust in God to work the rest out. Let us trust God with faith as we become the Holy Spirit’s voice, arms, and feet. God Bless.
