Be Full of Faith…

Be Full of Faith…

Heb 10:23
So let us seize and hold fast and retain without wavering the hope we cherish and confess and our acknowledgement of it, for He Who promised is reliable (sure) and faithful to His word.

What is faithfulness?
Faithfulness = being so full of faith that you will do the same thing over and over again, diligently, consistently, with no recognition from men, knowing that God rewards. Faithfulness is FULL OF FAITH.

People quit before they get to the end of the race because they don’t have a recognition that it is God that rewards. He is the rewarder.

Faithfulness, or sticking with it, even when you are not getting recognition from Man, is a sign of greater faith, because your trust is in God.

God looks for faithfulness in an individual long before He looks for talent or giftings or any other abilities. When God finds somebody with faithfulness, He can and will deposit into them the talent and abilities that they will need to accomplish what He has for them.

When God only finds somebody with talent or ability, and no faithfulness, He will not use them.

Faith comes by hearing…

As we hear, our faith is built, our Spirit is built. When we speak words, and don’t keep our words, our Spirit gets to the point that it doesn’t believe us.

James: Let not the man who doubts think he’s going to receive anything

* wavering wounds our faith, back and forth hurts our faith
* our Spirit does not know what words we mean and what words we don’t mean

If you are speaking words, make them the right words. We hear those words, and our beliefs are being established by our words. If we give our word to do something, and don’t do it, our Spirit does not know what words to believe.

The same words that we speak, that release our faith and cause changes and promises of God to come forward, are coming from the same mouth.

If we commit to do something – we must do it. God watches over His words to perform them. He keeps His word, all the time.

Faithfulness is a characteristic of the Spirit of Excellence

Proverbs 28:20
A faithful man shall abound with blessings, but he who makes haste to be rich [at any cost] shall not go unpunished.

Faithfulness is connected to blessings. Direct connection to being blessed for being faithful.

Luke 16:10
He who is faithful in a very little [thing] is faithful also in much, and he who is dishonest and unjust in a very little [thing] is dishonest and unjust also in much.

Read it like this: He who is FULL OF FAITH when he has little, will be FULL OF FAITH when he has much,…

Being FULL OF FAITH has nothing to do with material things – it is all about your trust in God.

Your level of trust in God does not change because you have more things. Having a lot doesn’t mean that you are full of faith – you have to have been full of faith with little before you can move to more.

You can have absolutely nothing in your pocket and be FULL OF FAITH, it is your level of trust in God.

It is the FAITHFUL (FULL OF FAITH) man that abounds with blessings.

There is an exchange happening between us and God. We show Him faithfulness, and He shows us blessings. There is a man-ward part and a God-ward part of the promises of God, and the man-ward part comes FIRST.

Luke 16:11
Therefore if you have not been faithful in the [case of] unrighteous mammon (deceitful riches, money, possessions), who will entrust to you the true riches?

The Spirit of Excellence is not just on you in certain things, when it’s on you, it’s on you at all times. Faithfulness is the same way. When it’s on you, you are faithful in all things.

If we are not faithful in money, God cannot be faithful to trust us with TRUE RICHES. What are God’s ideas of TRUE RICHES?

* True revelation of His word?
* The Power of the Anointing?

We have to be faithful in all areas of our lives, even with our money, to access the true riches of God. This is part of the exchange happening with us and God. When we keep our word, He keeps His. When we are faithful to Him, He is faithful to us.