God's Good Plans for Your Faith

Jeremiah 29:13–14 NIV84

You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you,” declares the Lord, “and will bring you back from captivity. I will gather you from all the nations and places where I have banished you,” declares the Lord, “and will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile.”

This was written during the exile to Babylon, but it also is a prophecy for anyone who has been living in exile.

2 Thessalonians 1:3–4 NIV84

We ought always to thank God for you, brothers, and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love every one of you has for each other is increasing. Therefore, among God’s churches we boast about your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and trials you are enduring.

Faith can not stay the same: It must grow or it will suffer.

2 Thessalonians 1:5–10 (NIV84)

All this is evidence that God’s judgment is right, and as a result you will be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are suffering. God is just: He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you and give relief to you who are troubled, and to us as well. This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven in blazing fire with his powerful angels. He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the majesty of his power on the day he comes to be glorified in his holy people and to be marveled at among all those who have believed. This includes you, because you believed our testimony to you.

Where love is the seed that is panted that produces the fruits like FAITH, FAITH is the core gift which the other gifts are enhanced from

James 2:14–17 NIV84

What good is it, my brothers, if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save him? Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to him, “Go, I wish you well; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.

We need to accept ALL into God’s family, but then Jesus will take that faith and transform them to where HE knows they need to be.

2 Thessalonians 1:11–12 NIV84

With this in mind, we constantly pray for you, that our God may count you worthy of his calling, and that by his power he may fulfill every good purpose of yours and every act prompted by your faith. We pray this so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

We must continue by praying for success

Romans 8:30 NIV84

And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.