Profitable Faith
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What is profitable faith?
What is profitable faith?
Profitable Faith
Panel with Cameron Dodoo
What is profitable faith?
When you only look for verses that promise blessing, comfort, and encourage……
If you believe being blessed means you will have money…..
I believe in God because he heard my prayer and answered me….
Job was a great example……his wife wanted him to curse God, she had profitable faith…..only when things were going good did she bless the Lord!
Job refused to lose faith in God through it all…..
Many believers would accuse God of not being faithful to them….
Profitable Faith may sound like this.....
*just pray that I get this job....just pray that I get a raise.....just pray that that person won’t be there....just pray that God take that person out!
We worship Him because He is the only one in the universe that deserves worship…..because of who He is….and what He has done!
Do you accuse God when things go bad, and only testify when things go good?…..you have a profitable faith!
*give me a break God....why does this always happen to me?
Do you stop attending church meetings if you have any troubles in your life?
Do you stop attending church meetings when you get blessed with new stuff? ....boat, car, seadoo, pool, camper, etc...
If you have a profitable faith, you will not stand test and trials….you will only serve God in the good times……
Cherry picking scriptures that only promise blessing……..profitable faith.....
however,
Claiming the promises of the word without listening to the correction and rebuke, you will not be blessed!
could this be the reason why you are not walking in the promises in the word you read and proclaim? WHAT DID HE TELL YOU TO DO LAST?
The word is to transform us from the inside out…….
Anyone can know the scriptures, even memorize them!
*Even the devil knew and tried to manipulate the scriptures….with profitable faith…..
Profitable faith is satanic! The enemy wants to make believers think that God is like Santa clause!
16 All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
12 For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
“when you read the word of God, the word of God is reading you.”
- Cameron Dodoo
Faith is not all about receiving from Gods Word!
1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
substance -
1. a particular kind of matter with uniform properties.
2. the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists and which has a tangible, solid presence.
evidence-
1. the available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid.
2. be or show evidence of.
Where does faith come from?
15 We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, 16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. 17 But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid. 18 For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. 19 For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. 20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. 21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
where does faith come from?
This is a God story! God, in Christ, reconciled the whole world unto Himself!
18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
YOU WERE BOUGHT!
YOU NO LONGER EXIST!
YOU HAVE A NEW LIFE AND PURPOSE!.....MINISTRY OF RECONCILIATION!
“True godliness demands self-denial and cross-bearing, if you have none of these, you are making a false profession”!
- C.H. Spurgeon
QUESTIONS FOR YOU:
Are you an idolator?
“ If you love anything better than God you are idolaters: If there is anything you would not give up for God it is your idol: If there is anything that you seek with greater fervor than you seek the glory of God, that is your idol, and conversion means a turning from every idol.”
- C.H. Spurgeon