SPEAKING FAITH OR HOT AIR?

SPEAKING FAITH OR HOT AIR?

Hell listens closely to all your words of faith and immediately plans a counter movement to make you recant them. Speaking faith is a must, in order to move the kingdom forward on earth, however faith words must be weighed in comparison to My "power that works in you," Ephesians 3:20 (KJV) The condition of the heart, of the one who is speaking words of faith, must have the character to withstand the soon to follow enemy challenge. Suppose I show you the need to treat your wife better, the enemy jumps into action to irritate your wife in anyway he can to counter your attempt to change. Don't stand up and publicly declare, I am going to treat My wife better, your faith has not been challenged by an irritated wife yet. Testify afterwards, that is, if you pass. The fact is you may treat your wife worse, if her irritation leaps on you.

So many western believers talk big faith and have nothing to back it up with. All faith talk will be tested shortly after it is spoken. Without the test, it's all meaningless hot air. They fail because they do not understand that "the trial and proving of their faith brings out endurance and steadfastness and patience". James 1:3 (AMP) I don't like to mention names, but remember when "Peter said to Me, Even if they all fall away and are caused to stumble and distrust and desert You, yet I will not do so! [30] And I said to him, Truly I tell you, this very night, before a cock crows twice, you will utterly deny Me disclaiming all connection with Me three times." Mark 14:29-30 (AMP)

Big talk, small walk, equals kingdom loss. This is the where the serious part comes in. Collateral damage; the spiritual deaths and setbacks in onlookers as they misinterpret your failure after failure. Carnal believers saying, I am going to do this and that and no matter what comes their way, they will serve Me, but because of their carnal life style they fail their faith test. Onlookers view this as My failure, and write Me off as the failure, completely oblivious to real truth of who really failed.

"So faith talk, if it is not tested with works (deeds and actions of obedience to back it up), by itself is destitute of power (inoperative, dead)." James 2:17 (AMP) This dead faith leaves a bad taste in the mouth of those I am calling into the kingdom, and thus causes great collateral damage. It is much better to keep your mouth shut and pass the faith test privately, than to brag publicly and fail in front of those who want to believe. Remember there are no rewards for how you start the race, so why brag about your faith, when you have no idea if you will be able to pass the test of it.

Everyone who passes the tests, are so broken by the experience, that all they want to do is give Me the glory for bringing them through. The fact is, it is the flesh of a person that causes the failures. In the process of passing, a little flesh dies with each test, after a few years of passing and failing, the faith boasting is replaced by a quiet faith walk in humility. Most faith bragging is an attempt to get attention by showing off a false faith, called presumption. If you are believing Me for something, only share it with a few trusted proven faith partners, and then if you fail the test, theirs no collateral damage. Then after a few times of bitter weeping, you finally pass, I get all the glory instead of you, your flesh dies, and you advance in the kingdom, preparing for the next test.

See how simple this faith walk is? It's a whole lot easier if walk it before you talk it!

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Jim Hammerle

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