Believing God

On Wednesday mornings my friend Tracy and I are facilitating this bible study by Beth Moore. If you have not done one of Beth Moore's indepth studies, I highly reccomend it!! During this particular one we are looking at the difference between believing in God and believing God. She reminds us that Scriptures are stacked full with truths and promises we are invited to personally apply and believe God to fulfill in our lives. The bible is overloaded with opportunities for us to be caught in the act of believing God.

We talked a lot about faith this week and I was overwhelmed by how precious my faith is (These have come so that your faith--of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire--may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. 1 Peter 1:7, NIV). The bottom line, is that our best efforts will always be infected with sin, so our only hope is our faith in Jesus Christ. Faith is a quality of the fruit of the Spirit (The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. Galations 5: 22-23, KJV) We also defined faith and faithfulness.

Faith is the root of all faithfulness.
Faithfulness is the outward expression of an inward fullness of faith.

I think Beth said it best when she said.."Though faith certainly encompasses serving and obeying God, I am opening my spiritual eyes to the fact that faith is the root of all faithfulness to God." I don't know about you, but I desperately want to "walk in the footsteps of faith" and pass down a legacy of faith to my children. So I leave you with this verse..."Without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him." Hebrews 11:6

I am so excited about this study. Keep checking back I am sure my excitement will overflow onto my blog again before we are done!!!!

Love you all,

Kelley